“…boron, CaB 12 H 12 ). [15,16] The addition of transition-metal chlorides and fluorides (TiCl 3 , NbF 5 and TiF 4 ) demonstrated to be beneficial to avoid the formation of boron and drive the decomposition reaction to CaB 6 which was reported to be essential for the occurrence of the reversible reaction. [10,17,18] In fact, when transition-metal chlorides and fluorides are combined with a hydride phase and subjected to the mechanochemical processing, they transforms into more stable compounds (e.g.…”