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Hydrogen from Formic Acid through Its Selective Disproportionation over Sodium Germanate—A Non‐Transition‐Metal Catalysis System |
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| Authors: | Dr. Ruth I. J. Amos Dr. Falk Heinroth Dr. Bun Chan Sisi Zheng Prof. Brian S. Haynes Prof. Christopher J. Easton Prof. Anthony F. Masters Prof. Leo Radom Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia);2. CSIRO Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels and Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 (Australia);3. ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology (Australia);4. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia) |
| Abstract: | A robust catalyst for the selective dehydrogenation of formic acid to liberate hydrogen gas has been designed computationally, and also successfully demonstrated experimentally. This is the first such catalyst not based on transition metals, and it exhibits very encouraging performance. It represents an important step towards the use of renewable formic acid as a hydrogen‐storage and transport vector in fuel and energy applications. |
| Keywords: | dehydrogenation formic acid hydrogen |