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 …

[HTML][HTML] Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia: recent efforts and future outlook

I Garagounis, A Vourros, D Stoukides, D Dasopoulos… - Membranes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ammonia is a key chemical produced in huge quantities worldwide. Its primary industrial
production is via the Haber-Bosch method; a process requiring high temperatures and …

Onset potentials for different reaction mechanisms of nitrogen activation to ammonia on transition metal nitride electro-catalysts

Y Abghoui, E Skúlason - Catalysis Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent theoretical calculations with DFT suggest that transition metal nitrides (TMNs) are
promising materials to catalyze N 2 electroreduction to ammonia at ambient conditions. To …

Computational predictions of catalytic activity of zincblende (110) surfaces of metal nitrides for electrochemical ammonia synthesis

Y Abghoui, E Skúlason - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Here we present comprehensive results of theoretical analyses conducted with density
functional theory on the (110) texture orientations of the zincblende structures of 23 …

Recent progress towards solar energy integration into low-pressure green ammonia production technologies

L Klaas, D Guban, M Roeb, C Sattler - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large progress has been made in the last decades to reduce the carbon footprint of
ammonia, which is an essential commodity of the food, chemical and energy industry. Apart …

Elementary kinetics of nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia on late transition metals

G Rostamikia, S Maheshwari, MJ Janik - Catalysis Science & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing small scale nitrogen to ammonia conversion devices could greatly help
sustainable agriculture. The lack of effective cathode materials for reduction of nitrogen to …

Experimental screening of metal nitrides hydrolysis for green ammonia synthesis via solar thermochemical looping

S Abanades, B Rebiere, M Drobek, A Julbe - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia is a fundamental chemical commodity for fertilizers and as a novel energy vector.
Solar-driven ammonia synthesis is proposed as a sustainable alternative to the catalytic …

Low-temperature heterogeneous catalytic reaction by surface protonics

M Torimoto, K Murakami, Y Sekine - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Heterogeneous catalytic reaction at low temperatures (< 500 K) has been proposed and
investigated by our group. As described in this report, recent trends of low-temperature …

Proton conducting membranes for hydrogen and ammonia production

G Weng, K Ouyang, X Lin, J Xue… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen and ammonia are ubiquitous chemical raw materials with a wide range of
industrial applications. Methane steam reforming and Haber–Bosch process are the most …

Electrochemical membrane cell for NH 3 synthesis from N 2 and H 2 O by electrolysis at 200 to 250 C using a Ru catalyst, hydrogen-permeable Pd membrane and …

K Imamura, J Kubota - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3) is an energy carrier that can be synthesized from nitrogen and water using
electricity generated from renewable sources. The present work investigated NH3 synthesis …