Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Single-catalyst high-weight% hydrogen storage in an N-heterocycle synthesized from lignin hydrogenolysis products and ammonia

  • Daniel Forberg,
  • Tobias Schwob,
  • Muhammad Zaheer,
  • Martin Friedrich,
  • Nobuyoshi Miyajima,
  • Rhett Kempe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13201
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Energy storage and biomass utilization are two major challenges for sustainability. Here the authors use a major lignin hydrogenolysis product for the synthesis of an N-heterocycle and develop a bimetallic catalyst for repeated hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of this and other molecules for hydrogen storage.