Will We Soon Be Fueling our Automobiles with Ammonia-Borane?

摘要

As we burn our way through the petroleum resource which took many millions of years to form,and we generate large amounts of the greenhouse gas,CO2,as well as other pollutants in the process,the issues of economics and politics as well as social and environmental questions have led to the search for new fuels,especially for use in transportation.Hydrogen,which would be potentially the cleanest of fuels,producing only water as an oxidation product,has attracted much attention,and of course,there is the potential to derive this fuel from water itself,should an attractive alternative to electrolysis be developed(e.g.,an efficient photocatalytic process).