Adsorption energy in oxygen electrocatalysis

J Zhang, HB Yang, D Zhou, B Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Adsorption energy (AE) of reactive intermediate is currently the most important descriptor for
electrochemical reactions (eg, water electrolysis, hydrogen fuel cell, electrochemical …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

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 …

Electrosynthesis of ammonia with high selectivity and high rates via engineering of the solid-electrolyte interphase

S Li, Y Zhou, K Li, M Saccoccio, R Sažinas… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Ammonia is a large-scale commodity essential to fertilizer production, but the Haber-Bosch
process leads to massive emissions of carbon dioxide. Electrochemical ammonia synthesis …

Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions

C Chen, X Zhu, X Wen, Y Zhou, L Zhou, H Li, L Tao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The use of nitrogen fertilizers has been estimated to have supported 27% of the world's
population over the past century. Urea (CO (NH2) 2) is conventionally synthesized through …

Mesoporous PdN alloy nanocubes for efficient electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

L Sun, B Liu - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Developing highly active and selective electrocatalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction
reaction (NITRR) is very important for synthesizing recyclable ammonia (NH3) in an …

P-block single-metal-site tin/nitrogen-doped carbon fuel cell cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

F Luo, A Roy, L Silvioli, DA Cullen, A Zitolo… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
This contribution reports the discovery and analysis of ap-block Sn-based catalyst for the
electroreduction of molecular oxygen in acidic conditions at fuel cell cathodes; the catalyst is …

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 …

Coadsorption of NRR and HER Intermediates Determines the Performance of Ru-N4 toward Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction

T Wu, MM Melander, K Honkala - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical N2 reduction (NRR) to ammonia is seriously limited by the competing
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but atomic-scale factors controlling HER/NRR …

Intermediate confinement for selective ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate on robust mesoporous metal catalysts

L Sun, H Yao, F Jia, Y Wang… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoporous metals have received massive research interests in catalysis and
electrocatalysis due to their unique structural features. However, most studies have focused …