Porous materials for hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4512-4534

  Umegaki, Tetsuo ^a   Xu, Qiang ^b   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrolysis of ammonia borane; Immobilization; Nanostructured materials; Porous materials; Support

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROLYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE VITRIFICATION; SUPPORTS;

AMMONIA BORANE; HYDROGEN DENSITIES; HYDROGEN ENERGY ECONOMY; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; HYDROLYSIS REACTION; METAL-BASED CATALYSTS; REACTION PERFORMANCE; STORED HYDROGEN;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

EID: 84937706756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8074512     Document Type: Review

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