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Tom Autrey is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry, energy engineering and power technology, catalysis, electrical and electronic engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

The main topics covered in Autrey's work include:

  • Hydrogen Storage and Materials
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Superconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Autrey has contributed to several recent publications, notable examples being:

  • Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen (2022, Nature Chemistry)
  • Hydrogen storage in complex hydrides: past activities and new trends (2022, Progress in Energy)
  • Cost and potential of metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen back-up power supply (2022, Nature Energy)
  • Green steel: design and cost analysis of hydrogen-based direct iron reduction (2023, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • Nanoconfinement of Molecular Magnesium Borohydride Captured in a Bipyridine-Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework (2020, ACS Nano)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Mark Bowden
  • Kriston Brooks
  • Ba L. Tran
  • Thomas Gennett
  • Abhijeet Karkamkar

Autrey's work has been published across various venues, with multiple publications in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Progress in Energy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Best Publications

  • Immobilizing Highly Catalytically Active Pt Nanoparticles inside the Pores of Metal–Organic Framework: A Double Solvents Approach

    Arshad Aijaz;Abhijeet J. Karkamkar;Young Joon Choi;Nobuko Tsumori

  • Nanoscaffold Mediates Hydrogen Release and the Reactivity of Ammonia Borane

    Anna Gutowska;Liyu Li;Yongsoon Shin;Chong M. Wang

  • High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes

    Zhitao Xiong;Chaw Keong Yong;Guotao Wu;Ping Chen

  • In situ solid state 11B MAS-NMR studies of the thermal decomposition of ammonia borane: mechanistic studies of the hydrogen release pathways from a solid state hydrogen storage material

    Ashley C. Stowe;Wendy J. Shaw;John C. Linehan;Benjamin Schmid

  • Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen

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  • An assessment of strategies for the development of solid-state adsorbents for vehicular hydrogen storage

    Mark D. Allendorf;Zeric Hulvey;Zeric Hulvey;Thomas Gennett;Thomas Gennett;Alauddin Ahmed

  • Boron–nitrogen–hydrogen (BNH) compounds: recent developments in hydrogen storage, applications in hydrogenation and catalysis, and new syntheses

    Zhenguo Huang;Tom Autrey

  • Synthesis of ammonia borane for hydrogen storage applications

    David J. Heldebrant;Abhijeet J. Karkamkar;John C. Linehan;Thomas Autrey

  • In situ XAFS and NMR study of rhodium-catalyzed dehydrogenation of dimethylamine borane.

    Yongsheng Chen;John L. Fulton;John C. Linehan;Thomas Autrey

  • The Effects of Chemical Additives on the Induction Phase in Solid-State Thermal Decomposition of Ammonia Borane

    David J. Heldebrant;Abhijeet J. Karkamkar;Nancy J. Hess;Mark E. Bowden

  • In situ multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies of the thermal decomposition of ammonia borane in solution

    Wendy J. Shaw;John C. Linehan;Nathaniel K. Szymczak;David J. Heldebrant

  • Tandem Nitrogen Functionalization of Porous Carbon: Toward Immobilizing Highly Active Palladium Nanoclusters for Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid

    Zhangpeng Li;Xinchun Yang;Nobuko Tsumori;Zheng Liu

  • Coherent Carbon Cryogel−Ammonia Borane Nanocomposites for H2 Storage

    Aaron M. Feaver;Saghar Sepehri;Patrick J. Shamberger;Ashley C. Stowe

  • Reversible dehydrogenation of magnesium borohydride to magnesium triborane in the solid state under moderate conditions

    Marina Chong;Abhijeet J. Karkamkar;Thomas Autrey;Shin-ichi Orimo

  • Iridium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of Substituted Amine Boranes: Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Implications for Hydrogen Storage

    Brandon L. Dietrich;Karen I. Goldberg;D. Michael Heinekey;Tom Autrey

  • Hydrogen Storage in Formic Acid: A Comparison of Process Options

    Karsten Müller;Kriston Brooks;Tom Autrey

  • When is a Nanoparticle a Cluster? An Operando EXAFS Study of Amine Borane Dehydrocoupling by Rh4-6 Clusters

    John L. Fulton;John C. Linehan;Tom Autrey;Mahalingam Balasubramanian

  • Spectroscopic studies of the phase transition in ammonia borane: Raman spectroscopy of single crystal NH3BH3 as a function of temperature from 88 to 330 K.

    Nancy J. Hess;Mark E. Bowden;Vencislav M. Parvanov;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Hydrogen release studies of alkali metal amidoboranes.

    Avery T. Luedtke;Tom Autrey

  • Matrix isolation, time-resolved IR, and computational study of the photochemistry of benzoyl azide

    Elena A. Pritchina;Nina Gritsan;Alexander Maltsev;Thomas Bally

  • The thermal decomposition of ammonia borane: A potential hydrogen storage material

    Mark Bowden;Tom Autrey;Ian Brown;Martin Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Linehan
John C. Linehan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Donald M. Camaioni
Donald M. Camaioni Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark E. Bowden
Mark E. Bowden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gregory K. Schenter
Gregory K. Schenter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Wendy J. Shaw
Wendy J. Shaw Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ping Chen
Ping Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Maciej Gutowski
Maciej Gutowski Heriot-Watt University
Thomas Proffen
Thomas Proffen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John L. Fulton
John L. Fulton Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yongsheng Chen
Yongsheng Chen Nankai University

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