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Cover Feature: About the Technological Readiness of the H 2 Generation by Hydrolysis of B(−N)−H Compounds (Energy Technol. 3/2018)
Author(s) -
Demirci Umit B.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
energy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2194-4296
pISSN - 2194-4288
DOI - 10.1002/ente.201800156
Subject(s) - ammonia borane , sodium borohydride , borane , hydrolysis , borohydride , lithium (medication) , feature (linguistics) , chemistry , key (lock) , nanotechnology , materials science , computer science , catalysis , organic chemistry , hydrogen production , operating system , psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy
Technological conclusions : At the beginning of the new millennium, hydrolysis of sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) was presented as a promising on‐board technology to generate H 2 for light‐duty vehicles. Years later, other B(−N)−H compounds (e.g., lithium borohydride (LiBH 4 ) and ammonia borane (NH 3 BH 3 )) emerged as attractive alternatives whereas NaBH 4 was struggling with several issues jeopardizing its implementation. The technological readiness of the promising hydrolytic B(−N)−H compounds is investigated in this Review. It is concluded that NaBH 4 is the best hydrolytic B(−N)−H compound for implementation on a large scale, with a few key challenges left to address in the future. More details can be found in the Review by Umit B. Demirci of the University of Montpellier on page 470 in Issue 3, 2018 ( 10.1002/ente.201700486).