This is a very stark misrepresentation of the research. The actual study is about reducing the energy consumption of natural gas refining: https://www.scienced

This is a very stark misrepresentation of the research. The actual study is about reducing the energy consumption of natural gas refining: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369702122001614?dgcid=author https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13697... Apparently this process accounts for a large fraction of energy consumed in the overall petrochemical economy, but it's got little to do with hydrogen storage. In fact, boron nitride, the key material here, has been extensively considered for hydrogen storage due to the stability of the compound NH3BH3, hence attempts to perform the reaction BN + 3 H2 >> NH3BH3, but these are very difficult and it's unlikely a simple technique would have been missed. The use of BN to adsorb ethylene is much less "obvious".