TY - JOUR
T1 - Small-pore hydridic frameworks store densely packed hydrogen
AU - Oh, Hyunchul
AU - Tumanov, Nikolay
AU - Ban, Voraksmy
AU - Li, Xiao
AU - Richter, Bo
AU - Hudson, Matthew R
AU - Brown, Craig M
AU - Iles, Gail N
AU - Wallacher, Dirk
AU - Jorgensen, Scott W
AU - Daemen, Luke
AU - Balderas-Xicohténcatl, Rafael
AU - Cheng, Yongqiang
AU - Ramirez-Cuesta, Anibal J
AU - Heere, Michael
AU - Posada-Pérez, Sergio
AU - Hautier, Geoffroy
AU - Hirscher, Michael
AU - Jensen, Torben R
AU - Filinchuk, Yaroslav
N1 - © 2024. The Author(s).
PY - 2024/5
Y1 - 2024/5
N2 - Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge. Here, by using neutron powder diffraction, volumetric gas adsorption, inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles calculations, we investigate a magnesium borohydride framework that has small pores and a partially negatively charged non-flat interior for hydrogen and nitrogen uptake. Hydrogen and nitrogen occupy distinctly different adsorption sites in the pores, with very different limiting capacities of 2.33 H
2 and 0.66 N
2 per Mg(BH
4)
2. Molecular hydrogen is packed extremely densely, with about twice the density of liquid hydrogen (144 g H
2 per litre of pore volume). We found a penta-dihydrogen cluster where H
2 molecules in one position have rotational freedom, whereas H
2 molecules in another position have a well-defined orientation and a directional interaction with the framework. This study reveals that densely packed hydrogen can be stabilized in small-pore materials at ambient pressures.
AB - Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge. Here, by using neutron powder diffraction, volumetric gas adsorption, inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles calculations, we investigate a magnesium borohydride framework that has small pores and a partially negatively charged non-flat interior for hydrogen and nitrogen uptake. Hydrogen and nitrogen occupy distinctly different adsorption sites in the pores, with very different limiting capacities of 2.33 H
2 and 0.66 N
2 per Mg(BH
4)
2. Molecular hydrogen is packed extremely densely, with about twice the density of liquid hydrogen (144 g H
2 per litre of pore volume). We found a penta-dihydrogen cluster where H
2 molecules in one position have rotational freedom, whereas H
2 molecules in another position have a well-defined orientation and a directional interaction with the framework. This study reveals that densely packed hydrogen can be stabilized in small-pore materials at ambient pressures.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41557-024-01443-x
DO - 10.1038/s41557-024-01443-x
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38321236
SN - 1755-4330
VL - 16
SP - 809
EP - 816
JO - Nature Chemistry
JF - Nature Chemistry
IS - 5
ER -