Chapter 6: Amorphous Boron Alloys and Their Catalytic Behaviour
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Published:11 Jul 2018
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Special Collection: 2018 ebook collectionSeries: Catalysis Series
N. Irvine, in Alternative Catalytic Materials: Carbides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Amorphous Boron Alloys, ed. J. S. J. Hargreaves, A. R. McFarlane, and S. Laassiri, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, ch. 6, pp. 104-119.
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This chapter summarises the amorphous boron alloys as alternative catalytic materials, with particular focus being placed upon the synthesis and activity of these materials. Amorphous boron alloys have been exploited for catalytic hydrogen evolution of sodium borohydride and have also been used as hydrogenation catalysts for several different compounds. As detailed, these catalysts can be synthesised by a variety of different routes, the most common of which is via the sodium borohydride reduction of precursors.