Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

Emerging applications, developments, prospects, and challenges of electrochemical nitrate‐to‐ammonia conversion

W Chen, X Yang, Z Chen, Z Ou, J Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia is not only an important feedstock for chemical industry but also a carbon‐free
energy carrier and a safe storage media for hydrogen. Due to the advantages compared to …

Non-iridium-based electrocatalyst for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis

ZY Wu, FY Chen, B Li, SW Yu, YZ Finfrock, DM Meira… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Iridium-based electrocatalysts remain the only practical anode catalysts for proton exchange
membrane (PEM) water electrolysis, due to their excellent stability under acidic oxygen …

Active hydrogen boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

K Fan, W Xie, J Li, Y Sun, P Xu, Y Tang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia is a promising alternative strategy to the
traditional Haber-Bosch process but suffers from a low Faradaic efficiency and limited …

Tandem electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia on MBenes

G Zhang, X Li, K Chen, Y Guo, D Ma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate the great feasibility of MBenes as a new class of tandem catalysts for
electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (NO3RR). As a proof of concept, FeB2 is first …

Ampere-level current density ammonia electrochemical synthesis using CuCo nanosheets simulating nitrite reductase bifunctional nature

JY Fang, QZ Zheng, YY Lou, KM Zhao, SN Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of electrocatalysts capable of efficient reduction of nitrate (NO3−) to
ammonia (NH3) is drawing increasing interest for the sake of low carbon emission and …

Efficient conversion of low-concentration nitrate sources into ammonia on a Ru-dispersed Cu nanowire electrocatalyst

FY Chen, ZY Wu, S Gupta, DJ Rivera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemically converting nitrate ions, a widely distributed nitrogen source in industrial
wastewater and polluted groundwater, into ammonia represents a sustainable route for both …

Alloying of Cu with Ru enabling the relay catalysis for reduction of nitrate to ammonia

W Gao, K Xie, J Xie, X Wang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Involving eight electron transfer process and multiple intermediates of nitrate (NO3−)
reduction reaction leads to a sluggish kinetic and low Faradaic efficiency, therefore, it is …

Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

S Zhang, J Wu, M Zheng, X Jin, Z Shen, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia offers an efficient approach to reducing
nitrate pollutants and a potential technology for low-temperature and low-pressure ammonia …

Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …