Sodium borohydride as a fuel for the future

DMF Santos, CAC Sequeira - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
In a time of unprecedented change in environmental, geopolitical and socio-economic world
affairs, the search for new energy materials has become a topic of great relevance. Sodium …

A comprehensive review of direct borohydride fuel cells

J Ma, NA Choudhury, Y Sahai - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2010 - Elsevier
A direct borohydride fuel cell (DBFC) is a device that converts chemical energy stored in
borohydride ion (BH4−) and an oxidant directly into electricity by redox processes. Usually, a …

Recent advances in the understanding of nickel-based catalysts for the oxidation of hydrogen-containing fuels in alkaline media

AG Oshchepkov, G Braesch, A Bonnefont… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nickel is a very abundant transition metal in the Earth's crust, and it finds numerous
applications in electrochemical processes where metallic Ni or its oxides are …

A high‐performance composite electrode for vanadium redox flow batteries

Q Deng, P Huang, WX Zhou, Q Ma… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A composite electrode composed of reduced graphene oxide‐graphite felt (rGO‐GF) with
excellent electrocatalytic redox reversibility toward V2+/V3+ and VO2+/VO2+ redox couples …

Electrocatalysis on gold

P Rodriguez, MTM Koper - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective article reviews recent advances in the study of important catalytic reactions
on gold electrodes. The paper discusses both oxidation and reduction reactions: the …

Biofouling effects on the performance of microbial fuel cells and recent advances in biotechnological and chemical strategies for mitigation

MT Noori, MM Ghangrekar, CK Mukherjee… - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
The occurrence of biofouling in MFC can cause severe problems such as hindering proton
transfer and increasing the ohmic and charge transfer resistance of cathodes, which results …

Developments in direct borohydride fuel cells and remaining challenges

I Merino-Jiménez, CP De León, AA Shah… - Journal of Power …, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the last twenty years, there has been a resurgent research interest in direct
borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) highlighting the fundamental aspects that need to be …

In situ evolved defective TiO2 as robust support for CoB-catalyzed hydrolysis of NaBH4

J Shen, D Xu, J Ji, Q Zhang, X Fan - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sodium borohydride (NaBH 4) has been proposed to be a realizable hydrogen supplier for
proton-exchange membrane fuel cell. Cobalt boride (CoB) is one of the most promising non …

Efficient pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interfaces in direct borohydride fuel cells

Z Wang, J Parrondo, C He, S Sankarasubramanian… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The disparate pH requirements for borohydride oxidation and peroxide reduction in direct
borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) currently hinder their performance and efficiency. Here we …

Borohydride oxidation reaction mechanisms and poisoning effects on Au, Pt and Pd bulk electrodes: From model (low) to direct borohydride fuel cell operating (high) …

G Braesch, A Bonnefont, V Martin, ER Savinova… - Electrochimica …, 2018 - Elsevier
The borohydride oxidation reaction (BOR) was characterized on the three most-studied
noble metals (Au, Pt and Pd) in a range of NaBH 4 concentration and temperature that …