publish time

26/09/2019

author name Arab Times

publish time

26/09/2019

KUWAIT CITY, Sept 26, (KUNA): Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) announced that the Nanotechnology Program of the Institute of Energy and Building Research in the Institute has obtained a global patent in the Hydrogen storage in nanoscale metals like magnesium. The Kuwaiti Institute has earned the patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, KISR said in a statement Thursday Kuwait, represented by KISR, ranks seventh on a par with South Korea in the list of the 10 most active countries in the world in the production, utilization and use of nanomaterials stored for hydrogen gas, the statement added.

The statement confirmed the Institute’s interest in diversifying energy sources, especially new and renewable in order to improve the properties of magnesium and its ability to store hydrogen in quantities of weight up to more than five percent