Ammonia as hydrogen carrier: Advances in ammonia decomposition catalysts for promising hydrogen production

S Sun, Q Jiang, D Zhao, T Cao, H Sha, C Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
On-site ammonia decomposition has been considered as a potential candidate to alleviate
the challenges of hydrogen storage and transportation by utilizing NH 3 (with a high …

Advances in materials and applications of inorganic electrides

H Hosono, M Kitano - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrides are materials in which electrons serve as anions. Here, the concept of inorganic
electrides is extended in several respects: from ionic crystals to intermetallic compounds in …

Vacancy-enabled N2 activation for ammonia synthesis on an Ni-loaded catalyst

TN Ye, SW Park, Y Lu, J Li, M Sasase, M Kitano… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ammonia (NH3) is pivotal to the fertilizer industry and one of the most commonly produced
chemicals. The direct use of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) had been challenging, owing to its …

Surface Single-Cluster Catalyst for N2-to-NH3 Thermal Conversion

XL Ma, JC Liu, H Xiao, J Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ammonia synthesis from N2 is of vital importance, with imitating biological nitrogen
fixation attracted much interest. Herein, we investigate the catalytic mechanisms of N2-to …

Dehydrated UiO‐66(SH)2: The Zr−O Cluster and Its Photocatalytic Role Mimicking the Biological Nitrogen Fixation

B Guo, X Cheng, Y Tang, W Guo, S Deng… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work reports the dehydrated Zr‐based MOF UiO‐66 (SH) 2 as a visible‐light‐driven
photocatalyst to mimic the biological N2 fixation process. The 15N2 and other control …

Titanium-based hydrides as heterogeneous catalysts for ammonia synthesis

Y Kobayashi, Y Tang, T Kageyama… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The problem of activating N2 and its subsequent hydrogenation to form NH3 has been
approached from many directions. One of these approaches involves the use of transition …

Dissociative and associative concerted mechanism for ammonia synthesis over Co-based catalyst

TN Ye, SW Park, Y Lu, J Li, J Wu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The current catalytic reaction mechanism for ammonia synthesis relies on either dissociative
or associative routes, in which adsorbed N2 dissociates directly or is hydrogenated step-by …

Computational Study of MoN2 Monolayer as Electrochemical Catalysts for Nitrogen Reduction

Q Li, L He, C Sun, X Zhang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metallic two-dimensional materials are emerging as promising catalysts for several
reactions. This work reports a computational study of molybdenum nitride (MoN2) nanosheet …

Multiple reaction pathway on alkaline earth imide supported catalysts for efficient ammonia synthesis

Z Li, Y Lu, J Li, M Xu, Y Qi, SW Park, M Kitano… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The tunability of reaction pathways is required for exploring efficient and low cost catalysts
for ammonia synthesis. There is an obstacle by the limitations arising from scaling relation …

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 …