Electrochemical nitrate reduction: ammonia synthesis and the beyond

Y Xiong, Y Wang, J Zhou, F Liu, F Hao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Natural nitrogen cycle has been severely disrupted by anthropogenic activities. The overuse
of N‐containing fertilizers induces the increase of nitrate level in surface and ground waters …

Defective Metal Oxides: Lessons from CO2RR and Applications in NOxRR

TS Bui, EC Lovell, R Daiyan, R Amal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sluggish reaction kinetics and the undesired side reactions (hydrogen evolution reaction
and self‐reduction) are the main bottlenecks of electrochemical conversion reactions, such …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Splicing the active phases of copper/cobalt-based catalysts achieves high-rate tandem electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia

W He, J Zhang, S Dieckhöfer, S Varhade… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic recycling of waste nitrate (NO3−) to valuable ammonia (NH3) at ambient
conditions is a green and appealing alternative to the Haber− Bosch process. However, the …

Regulating active hydrogen adsorbed on grain boundary defects of nano-nickel for boosting ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate

J Zhou, M Wen, R Huang, Q Wu, Y Luo… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NitRR) into ammonia is a promising route for
sustainable ammonia synthesis under ambient conditions. Since the hydrogen evolution …

Ambient Ammonia Synthesis via Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate Enabled by NiCo2O4 Nanowire Array

Q Liu, L Xie, J Liang, Y Ren, Y Wang, L Zhang, L Yue… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
NiCo2O4 nanowire array on carbon cloth (NiCo2O4/CC) is proposed as a highly active
electrocatalyst for ambient nitrate (NO3−) reduction to ammonia (NH3). In 0.1 m NaOH …

Enhancing electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia over Cu nanosheets via facet tandem catalysis

Y Fu, S Wang, Y Wang, P Wei, J Shao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate (NO3−) into ammonia (NH3) represents a potential
way for achieving carbon‐free NH3 production while balancing the nitrogen cycle. Herein …

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 …

Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction on oxide-derived silver with tunable selectivity to nitrite and ammonia

H Liu, J Park, Y Chen, Y Qiu, Y Cheng… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Removing excess nitrate (NO3–) from waste streams has become a significant
environmental and health topic. However, realizing highly selective NO3–conversion toward …

Role of electronic structure on nitrate reduction to ammonium: a periodic journey

OQ Carvalho, R Marks, HKK Nguyen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis is a promising approach to convert waste nitrate to ammonia and help close
the nitrogen cycle. This renewably powered ammonia production process sources hydrogen …