Professor Alexander Kvashnin from the Energy Transition Center, PhD student Aleksandra Radina, and their colleagues identified stable surfaces of the tungsten pentaboride crystal and revealed that this new catalytic compound is not poisoned by sulfur-containing impurities, which means its activity does not diminish. Tungsten pentaboride can potentially be used as a catalyst or cocatalyst in filters for cleaning industrial exhaust gasses, mining precious metals, photocatalytic production of hydrogen, and in other fields. Read more about the promising catalyst on TASS (RUS), InScience (RUS), Scoop (ENG), and Phys.org (ENG).