Recent Advances and Challenges of Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction to Ammonia

G Qing, R Ghazfar, ST Jackowski, F Habibzadeh… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global ammonia production reached 175 million metric tons in 2016, 90% of which is
produced from high purity N2 and H2 gases at high temperatures and pressures via the …

A review of electrocatalytic reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia under ambient conditions

X Cui, C Tang, Q Zhang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The production of ammonia (NH3) from molecular dinitrogen (N2) under mild conditions is
one of the most attractive topics in the field of chemistry. Electrochemical reduction of N2 is …

“Capture-Backdonation-Recapture” Mechanism for Promoting N2 Reduction by Heteronuclear Metal-Free Double-Atom Catalysts

Y Wu, C He, W Zhang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Facing the increasingly serious energy and environmental crisis, the development of
heteronuclear metal-free double-atom catalysts is a potential strategy to realize efficient …

Boron-doped graphene for electrocatalytic N2 reduction

X Yu, P Han, Z Wei, L Huang, Z Gu, S Peng, J Ma… - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Electrochemical N 2 reduction in aqueous solutions at ambient conditions is extremely
challenging and requires rational design of electrocatalytic centers. We demonstrate a boron …

Molybdenum carbide nanodots enable efficient electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation under ambient conditions

H Cheng, LX Ding, GF Chen, L Zhang, J Xue… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation is considered a promising approach to achieve NH3
production. However, due to the chemical inertness of nitrogen, it is necessary to develop …

Single-boron catalysts for nitrogen reduction reaction

C Liu, Q Li, C Wu, J Zhang, Y Jin… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Boron has been explored as p-block catalysts for nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) by
density functional theory. Unlike transition metals, on which the active centers need empty d …

Confined Fe–Cu clusters as sub‐nanometer reactors for efficiently regulating the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction

X Wang, S Qiu, J Feng, Y Tong, F Zhou, Q Li… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) over nonprecious‐metal and single‐
atom catalysts has received increasing attention as a sustainable strategy to synthesize …

Development of electrocatalysts for efficient nitrogen reduction reaction under ambient condition

D Liu, M Chen, X Du, H Ai, KH Lo… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the most important chemicals and an energy carrier, synthetic ammonia has been
widely studied to meet the increasing demand. Among various strategies, electrochemical …

2D high‐entropy transition metal dichalcogenides for carbon dioxide electrocatalysis

J Cavin, A Ahmadiparidari, L Majidi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy alloys combine multiple principal elements at a near equal fraction to form vast
compositional spaces to achieve outstanding functionalities that are absent in alloys with …

Emerging two-dimensional nanomaterials for electrochemical nitrogen reduction

Y Pang, C Su, G Jia, L Xu, Z Shao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3) is essential to serve as the biological building blocks for maintaining
organism function, and as the indispensable nitrogenous fertilizers for increasing the yield of …