High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Xiong, Zhitao ^a   Yong, Chaw Keong ^a   Wu, Guotao ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Shaw, Wendy ^b   Karkamkar, Abhi ^b   Autrey, Thomas ^b   Jones, Martin Owen ^c   Johnson, Simon R ^c   Edwards, Peter P ^c   David, William I F ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CRYOGENICS; FUEL ECONOMY; LITHIUM; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

ENERGY ECONOMY; SINGLE MATERIALS; TARGET CRITERIA;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 38549083322     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2081     Document Type: Article

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