Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Temperature-regulated guest admission and release in microporous materials

  • Gang (Kevin) Li,
  • Jin Shang,
  • Qinfen Gu,
  • Rohan V. Awati,
  • Nathan Jensen,
  • Andrew Grant,
  • Xueying Zhang,
  • David S. Sholl,
  • Jefferson Z. Liu,
  • Paul A. Webley,
  • Eric F. May

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15777
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Regulating guest access and release in porous materials remains an important goal. Here, May and colleagues elucidate the mechanism by which guest admission can be temperature-regulated in typical microporous materials, and experimentally exploit this process to achieve appreciable and reversible hydrogen storage.