Magnesium Nanocrystals Embedded in a Metal–Organic Framework: Hybrid Hydrogen Storage with Synergistic Effect on Physi‐ and Chemisorption

Hexagonal-disk-shaped magnesium nanocrystals (MgNCs) are fabricated within a porous metal-organic framework (MOF, see picture). The MgNCs@MOF stores hydrogen by both physi- and chemisorptions, exhibiting synergistic effects to decrease the isosteric heat of H(2) physisorption compared with that of pristine MOF, and decrease the H(2) chemisorption/desorption temperatures by 200 K compared with those of bare Mg powder.