Inside Back Cover: Magnesium Nanocrystals Embedded in a Metal–Organic Framework: Hybrid Hydrogen Storage with Synergistic Effect on Physi‐ and Chemisorption (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 39/2012)

Abstract

Hexagonal‐disk‐shaped Mg NCs (magnesium nanocrystals) have been fabricated within a porous MOF (metal–organic framework). In their Communication on M. P. Suh et al. report on the adsorption of hydrogen gas by Mg NCs@MOF both by physi‐ and chemisorption. Compared to pristine MOF, Mg NCs@MOF increases isosteric heat and uptake capacities of H2 physisorption, and decreases chemisorption/desorption temperatures by 200 K compared to bare Mg powder.