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Gulati: Nisadia storage is twice as dense as liquid hydrogen

Chaitanya Gulati · Inside India’s Next Gen Startups | Nikhil Kamath ft. WTFund C2/24 Founders · Nikhil Kamath · Mar 21, 2025 · at 1:10:40

Chaitanya Gulati pitches Nisadia, a Stanford-spinoff cleantech startup developing ambient solid-state hydrogen storage technology, on the WTFund podcast.

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“It's also two times more dense than liquid hydrogen is.”

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The claim, plainly

Nisadia's solid-state hydrogen storage technology is two times more dense than liquid hydrogen.

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Assessment

Liquid hydrogen has a volumetric density of approximately 70.8–71.0 g/L, requiring Nasadya Inc.'s solid-state hydrogen storage medium or system to reach at least ~140 g/L to achieve the claimed 'two times more dense' threshold. While certain specialized nanoporous metal-hydride materials in academic literature have demonstrated theoretical or pore-level volumetric capacities near this range (~144 g/L), as of September 2026 there are no published peer-reviewed papers, patents, technical datasheets, or independent third-party audit reports verifying that Nasadya's proprietary dual-alloy metal hydride system delivers a volumetric density of 140 g/L or higher. Because the horizon is a default pipeline horizon (2028-03-21) rather than a speaker-imposed deadline, and independent technical verification has not yet been made public, the claim cannot yet be resolved as true or false.

Liquid hydrogen achieves a density of ~71 g/L at cryogenic temperatures (20 K, 1 atm), setting the target threshold at >= 140 g/L.
Academic papers authored by the founding team (including co-founder Subhechchha Paul) focus on hydrogen diffusion and characterization, but contain no published system-level volumetric density figures >= 140 g/L.
As of September 2026, no published patent filings, datasheets, or independent third-party audit reports (such as from national labs or testing consortia) validate Nasadya's system density.

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[1] tracxn.com [2] ceovine.com [3] tracxn.com [4] illinois.edu [5] stanford.edu [6] snackfax.com [7] uchicago.edu [8] stanford.edu

"Subhechchha Paul" "hydrogen" "hydride" "Nasadya" patent "Chaitanya Gulati" "WTF" OR "Nikhil Kamath" "Chaitanya Gulati" hydrogen "Chaitanya Gulati" patent "Nasadya" "dual-alloy metal hydride" Nisadia solid state hydrogen storage density "Nasadya" hydrogen "Subhechchha Paul" patent OR paper hydrogen storage "H2ive" hydrogen patent

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