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 …

Atomic-level reactive sites for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia under ambient conditions

Y Yang, W Zhang, X Tan, K Jiang, S Zhai, Z Li - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is an integral part to modern agriculture and industry. As an economical
and sustainable process to convert nitrogen to NH 3 under ambient conditions, the …

Understanding the site‐selective electrocatalytic co‐reduction mechanism for green urea synthesis using copper phthalocyanine nanotubes

J Mukherjee, S Paul, A Adalder, S Kapse… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Green synthesis of urea under ambient conditions by electrochemical co‐reduction of N2
and CO2 gases using effective electrocatalyst essentially pushes the conventional two steps …

Strengthening the Metal Center of Co–N4 Active Sites in a 1D–2D Heterostructure for Nitrate and Nitrogen Reduction Reaction to Ammonia

S Paul, S Sarkar, A Adalder, S Kapse… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ammonia forms the fundamental agricultural constituent and vital energy provenance of a
clean hydrogen mediator. Ammonia production leads to immense energy utilization and …

Controlling the metal–ligand coordination environment of manganese phthalocyanine in 1D–2D heterostructure for enhancing nitrate reduction to ammonia

A Adalder, S Paul, N Barman, A Bera, S Sarkar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Eight-electron nitrate reduction (NO3RR) offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly
route of ammonia production and wastewater remediation. However, identification and …

Progress of experimental and computational catalyst design for electrochemical nitrogen fixation

Z Chen, C Liu, L Sun, T Wang - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Large-scale ammonia synthesis via the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (eNRR)
under mild reaction conditions represents a green prospect for agriculture, industry, and …

Iron phthalocyanine hollow architecture enabled ammonia production via nitrate reduction to achieve 100% Faradaic efficiency

S Sarkar, A Adalder, S Paul, S Kapse, R Thapa… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Eight electron nitrate (NO 3–) reduction to ammonia (NH 3) offers a cost–effective
and energy efficient route than the Haber–Bosch process. The state of art electrocatalysts for …

Pulsed Electrocatalysis Enabling High Overall Nitrogen Fixation Performance for Atomically Dispersed Fe on TiO2

M Guo, L Fang, L Zhang, M Li, M Cong… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically dispersed Fe was designed on TiO2 and explored as a Janus electrocatalyst for
both nitrogen oxidation reaction (NOR) and nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) in a two …

Dual metal site-mediated efficient C–N coupling toward electrochemical urea synthesis

S Paul, S Sarkar, A Adalder, A Banerjee… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical urea synthesis is a promising technology for carbon utilization. Herein, we
report a CoPc–MoS2 system for promoting urea synthesis by a C–N coupling reaction. Dual …

Lewis acid–dominated aqueous electrolyte acting as co-catalyst and overcoming N2 activation issues on catalyst surface

A Biswas, S Kapse, B Ghosh… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The growing demands for ammonia in agriculture and transportation fuel stimulate
researchers to develop sustainable electrochemical methods to synthesize ammonia …