Proton vibrational dynamics in pristine and nano-confined ammonia borane studied through IINS

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In the proposed experiment ammonia borane (NH_3BH_3) will be investigated through incoherent inelastic neutron scattering on TOSCA at low temperature. Since it is well known that the enthalpy of formation of a material is lowered by increasing its surface energy, it is possible to attain hydride destabilisation by decreasing the particle size, reaching a lower hydrogen release temperature. In general particles having nano-scale size are characterised by a different thermodynamics, a faster kinetics, an increased number of defects, and modified phase transitions. However, although preparation methods are being developed to infiltrate ammonia borane into nano-porous silica (e.g. MCM-41), the physical properties of such nano-dispersed substances are still little known. We are convinced that neutron spectroscopy will clarify some crucial aspects of these new advanced materials.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081797
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081797
Provenance
Creator Dr Anibal Ramirez-Cuesta; Dr Tom Autrey; Dr Marco Zoppi; Dr Daniele Colognesi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-04-04T10:44:45Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-04-08T08:11:16Z