Recent advances in non-noble metal electrocatalysts for nitrate reduction

X Zhang, Y Wang, C Liu, Y Yu, S Lu, B Zhang - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nitrate pollution has become a serious global problem, threatening human health and
ecosystems. The electrochemical reduction has emerged as an energy-efficient and …

Atomic hydrogen in electrocatalytic systems: generation, identification, and environmental applications

W Zheng, Y Liu, F Liu, Y Wang, N Ren, S You - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrochemical reduction has emerged as a viable technology for the removal of a variety of
organic contaminants from water. Atomic hydrogen (H*) is the primary species generated in …

Critical review of reductant-enhanced peroxide activation processes: Trade-off between accelerated Fe3+/Fe2+ cycle and quenching reactions

H Zhou, H Zhang, Y He, B Huang, C Zhou… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, we systematically summarized the origins, development, basic mechanism
and limits of reductant-enhanced iron-based peroxide activation processes (including H 2 O …

Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations

JG Chen, RM Crooks, LC Seefeldt, KL Bren… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND The invention of the Haber-Bosch (HB) process in the early 1900s to
produce ammonia industrially from nitrogen and hydrogen revolutionized the manufacture of …

Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate: Fundamentals to full-scale water treatment applications

S Garcia-Segura, M Lanzarini-Lopes… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nitrate contamination in surface and ground waters is one of this century's major
engineering challenges due to negative environmental impacts and the risk to human health …

The prospect of electrochemical technologies advancing worldwide water treatment

BP Chaplin - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Growing worldwide population, climate change, and decaying water
infrastructure have all contributed to a need for a better water treatment and conveyance …

Palladium-Copper bimetallic catalysts for electroreduction of CO2 and nitrogenous species

F Zhou, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Y Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid surge in global population and fossil fuel utilization over the past two centuries
have disrupted the natural carbon and nitrogen cycles, leading to various environmental …

Non-precious Co3O4-TiO2/Ti cathode based electrocatalytic nitrate reduction: Preparation, performance and mechanism

J Gao, B Jiang, C Ni, Y Qi, Y Zhang, N Oturan… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The presence of high nitrate (NO 3−) concentration in natural water constitutes a serious
issue to the environment and human health. Therefore, the development of low-cost, stable …

Enhanced reduction of nitrate by noble metal-free electrocatalysis on P doped three-dimensional Co3O4 cathode: Mechanism exploration from both experimental and …

J Gao, B Jiang, C Ni, Y Qi, X Bi - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing green, sustainable and economical materials for emerging electrochemical
remediation of nitrate (NO 3−) contaminant have attracted immense research interest. In this …

In-situ reconstructed Cu/Cu2O heterogeneous nanorods with oxygen vacancies for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia

Y Shi, Y Li, R Li, X Zhao, Y Yu, M Yang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (ENRA) is crucial for environmental pollution
treatment and sustainable energy development, but the complicated reduction mechanism …