The Structure and Solvation of Ammonia Borane in THF

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Ammonia borane (AB) is arguably the most promising hydrogen storage material for use in clean, green fuel applications. Simple heating of AB produces hydrogen that can be used to generate electricity with a fuel cell, the only byproduct being water. A current problem that needs to be solved before it can be widely adopted is in the regeneration of spent AB fuel back into AB. This requires more information as to the structure of AB in common solvents such as THF and ammonia, as these solvents will be key parts of the regeneration process. Neutron scattering is an ideal technique for the analysis of the structure of AB when it is dissolved in THF. It will provide data we cannot get elsewhere, as other techniques such as x-ray scattering do not provide much information on hydrogen.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73948147
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73948147
Provenance
Creator Dr Andrea Sella; Professor Steve Bennington; Dr Sam Callear; Dr Tom Headen; Mr Matt Billing; Mr David Ingram; Dr Neal Skipper
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-14T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-18T09:00:00Z