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Hydrogen gas: uses in research

Also: H2, biohydrogen

Hydrogen is a clean fuel that can be made by algae and by splitting water. It is also studied as a medical antioxidant.

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  1. 2000 Algae making hydrogen
  2. 2001 Storing hydrogen
  3. 2004 Sustainable hydrogen production
  4. 2007 Hydrogen as an antioxidant

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Sustainable hydrogen production

Turner reviewed routes to producing hydrogen sustainably.

As reported in: Turner (2004). Sustainable Hydrogen Production. Science. doi:10.1126/science.1103197

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lab biomedical 2007

Hydrogen as an antioxidant

Ohsawa and colleagues found inhaled hydrogen selectively reduced harmful oxygen radicals in rats.

As reported in: Ohsawa, Ishikawa, Takahashi et al. (2007). Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals. Nature Medicine. doi:10.1038/nm1577

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energy

lab energy 2000

Algae making hydrogen

Melis and colleagues got green algae to produce hydrogen gas for days by starving them of sulfur.

Built / tested: biohydrogen

As reported in: Melis, Zhang, Forestier et al. (2000). Sustained Photobiological Hydrogen Gas Production upon Reversible Inactivation of Oxygen Evolution in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiology. doi:10.1104/pp.122.1.127

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