Recent progress in electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia (NRR)

Z Huang, M Rafiq, AR Woldu, QX Tong, D Astruc… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ammonia is an essential raw ingredient for fertilizers, a carbon-free hydrogen carrier, and an
alternative fuel. The natural process of producing ammonia cannot meet the rapidly growing …

Strategies to suppress hydrogen evolution for highly selective electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction: challenges and perspectives

Y Ren, C Yu, X Tan, H Huang, Q Wei… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia, as a significant chemical for fertilizer production and also a promising energy
carrier, is mainly produced through the traditional energy-intensive Haber–Bosch process …

Recent Advances and Challenges of Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction to Ammonia

G Qing, R Ghazfar, ST Jackowski, F Habibzadeh… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global ammonia production reached 175 million metric tons in 2016, 90% of which is
produced from high purity N2 and H2 gases at high temperatures and pressures via the …

Tackling the activity and selectivity challenges of electrocatalysts toward the nitrogen reduction reaction via atomically dispersed biatom catalysts

X Guo, J Gu, S Lin, S Zhang, Z Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Developing efficient catalysts for nitrogen fixation is becoming increasingly important but is
still challenging due to the lack of robust design criteria for tackling the activity and selectivity …

Nitrate reduction to ammonium: from CuO defect engineering to waste NO x-to-NH 3 economic feasibility

R Daiyan, T Tran-Phu, P Kumar, K Iputera… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Critical to the feasibility of electrochemical reduction of waste NOx (NOxRR), as a
sustainable pathway and to close the NOx cycle for the emerging NH3 economy, is the …

Ultra-efficient N2 electroreduction achieved over a rhodium single-atom catalyst (Rh1/MnO2) in water-in-salt electrolyte

P Shen, X Li, Y Luo, N Zhang, X Zhao, K Chu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is an appealing strategy for green
ammonia synthesis. Despite tremendous efforts, current NRR performances of most …

Recent advances on transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemical energy conversion

X Wu, H Zhang, J Zhang, XW Lou - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) hold great promise for electrochemical energy
conversion technologies in view of their unique structural features associated with the …

Challenges and prospects in the catalysis of electroreduction of nitrogen to ammonia

BHR Suryanto, HL Du, D Wang, J Chen, AN Simonov… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Ammonia is a widely produced chemical that is the basis of most fertilisers. However, it is
currently derived from fossil fuels and there is an urgent need to develop sustainable …

Methods for nitrogen activation by reduction and oxidation

H Iriawan, SZ Andersen, X Zhang, BM Comer… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The industrial Haber–Bosch process to produce ammonia (NH3) from dinitrogen
(N2) is crucial for modern society. However, N2 activation is inherently challenging and the …

Electrocatalytic nitrate-to-ammonia conversion with~ 100% Faradaic efficiency via single-atom alloying

J Cai, Y Wei, A Cao, J Huang, Z Jiang, S Lu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Converting nitrate to ammonia (NH 3) with the use of electricity produced from renewable
energy provides an alternative and sustainable route for NH 3 synthesis under ambient …