Ionic Hydrides, Focussing on Magnesium Hydride

Already since the 1960-1970s it was known that Li, Na and Mg could be hydrided in solution under very mild conditions (typically 1 bar H 2 and room temperature or 0 ° C in the presence of a catalyst). Using this type of reaction, finely divided and very 

From research into battery applications its is known that magnesium salts are unstable in most polar aprotic solvents, such as esters, acetonitrile, and the standard alkyl carbonate lithium-battery electrolyte solvents. In the literature it is reported that it is possible to have magnesium in liquid ammonia solutions, either prepared electrochemically [55] or by trapping gas-phase nanoparticles by co-condensation [56], It is known that alkali metals can be dissolved in liquid ammonia, resulting in cations 

Recently, several authors have reported first results on the hydrogen sorption properties of magnesium (hydride) nanostructures with different shapes, such as wires, platelets and spheres grown from the vapor phase [65-67]. In general, the hydrogen sorption kinetics were very fast compared to bulk, non-catalyzed magne- 

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