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Acidic ideas for hydrogen storage

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Core–shell nanoparticles can be used to release hydrogen from formic acid and could provide a convenient method for storing hydrogen.

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Figure 1: The hydrogen economy will require renewable methods for producing hydrogen, safe and reversible methods for storing it, and efficient fuel cells for using hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water.

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  1. Albert Boddien and Henrik Junge are in the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany,

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Boddien, A., Junge, H. Acidic ideas for hydrogen storage. Nature Nanotech 6, 265–266 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.70

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