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Amides and borohydrides for high-capacity solid-state hydrogen storage—materials design and kinetic improvements

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The development of safe, efficient, and economic hydrogen storage technologies is key for implementation of a hydrogen-based energy economy. In the search for high-hydrogen content materials, attention in the past decade has shifted to amides and borohydrides, two representative solid-state chemical sorption materials with high hydrogen capacities that had not been previously explored for hydrogen storage. A large number of new amide and borohydride systems have recently been developed that expand the material scope for hydrogen storage. This article reviews the current progress in amides and borohydrides with emphases on material design and kinetic improvement.

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P.C. thanks the financial support from the Knowledge Innovation Program of CAS (KJCX2-YW-H21), 973 (2010CB631304) Project and National Natural Science foundation of China (51225206). H.W.L. acknowledges financial support from JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23760658, JSPS, and CAS under the Japan—China Scientific Cooperation Program, and the International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

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Wang, J., Li, HW. & Chen, P. Amides and borohydrides for high-capacity solid-state hydrogen storage—materials design and kinetic improvements. MRS Bulletin 38, 480–487 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2013.131

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