Hydrogen – Physical and Chemical Properties

Why is hydrogen becoming increasingly important for our energy system? How can it help us create a sustainable future? Being the simplest and most abundant element in the universe, it has great potential to change the way we produce, store and use energy.

Hydrogen plays an important role in various areas: transportation, energy storage and industry to name only some. As the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions and move away from fossil fuels, hydrogen is becoming an increasingly attractive clean alternative. However, there is hardly any free hydrogen on earth, it must therefore be produced on demand.

Hydrogen is still an important raw material in metal processing and in the production of chemical substances. In this course, we will take a look at the properties of hydrogen at the smallest level, the atom and nucleus. For technical applications, it is exciting to look at the compounds of hydrogen molecules. To better understand the properties of hydrogen, we need to know how it behaves at pressure and temperature. The transitions from gaseous hydrogen to liquid and then to solid hydrogen are particularly important and therefore are at the center of this course.