also favors hydrogen release at low temperatures.AB can release hydrogen through hydro lysis and thermolysis; and various attempts have been made to effectively extract hydrogen from both routes. [2][3][4][5][6] The activa tion energy for AB hydrolysis was meas ured to be between 21 and 87 kJ mol −1 , [7] compared to values ranging from 69.6 to 184 kJ mol −1 for thermolysis. [1,[8][9][10][11] Hence, the hydrolysis route following (1a) and/or (1b) is easier to activate with the assistance of a metalbased catalyst [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] NH BH 3H O NH B OH 3H 3 3 2 3 3 2 ( ) + → + + (1a) NH BH 4H O NH B OH 3H 3 3 2 4 4 2 ( )However, following (1a) and (1b) the maximum amount of hydrogen released is limited to 7.1 and 5.8 mass%, respectively owing to the remaining hydrogen in the NH 3 /NH 4 + products, [21] and this capacity is even lower in practical systems when considering any excess of H 2 O. The hydrolysis route also suffers from two major issues. In addition to the concomitant release of ammonia (NH 3 ) with hydrogen, the hydrolysis of AB is highly exothermic (≈−227 kJ mol −1 ) owing to the bond strength difference between BO and BN. [5] It is thus very difficult to regenerate NH 3 BH 3 from its hydrolyzed borate products, i.e., B(OH) 3 On the other hand the thermolysis of AB is a solid-gas reaction with potential of releasing a larger amount of hydrogen (theoret ically up to 19.6 mass%). It is generally proposed that through thermolysis hydrogen is released from AB via a multi step Ammonia borane (AB), with one of the highest hydrogen content (19.6 mass%), has attracted much attention as a potential hydrogen storage material. However, its complex and multistep thermal decomposition process has left the idea that AB can only be an irreversible hydrogen storage material. Herein, we demonstrate the potential of a novel nanosizing strategy in overcoming current drawbacks. By (a) successfully restricting the particle size of AB to the nanoscale (≈50 nm), and (b) discreetly encapsulating the synthesised nanosized AB particles within a nickel (Ni) matrix, AB showed unforeseen hydrogen reversibility along its decomposition path. Owing to the catalytic effect of Ni and the embedment of AB with the Ni matrix, this nanosizing approach reduced the hydrogen release temperature, suppressed the melting of AB and the production of volatiles by-products including diborane and borazine. But more remarkably, this approach enabled the reversible release and uptake of pure hydrogen at 200 °C and 6 MPa H 2 pressure, only. Reversibility is thought to occur through an iminoborane oligomer resulting from the initial decomposition of the nanosized AB/Ni matrix. This result demonstrates for the first time the possibility of tailoring.