Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate–a step towards a sustainable nitrogen cycle

H Xu, Y Ma, J Chen, W Zhang, J Yang - Chemical society reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrate enrichment, which is mainly caused by the over-utilization of fertilisers and industrial
sewage discharge, is a major global engineering challenge because of its negative …

Nitrate electroreduction: mechanism insight, in situ characterization, performance evaluation, and challenges

Y Wang, C Wang, M Li, Y Yu, B Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Excessive nitrate ions in the environment break the natural nitrogen cycle and become a
significant threat to human health. So far, many physical, chemical, and biological …

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 …

Ultralow overpotential nitrate reduction to ammonia via a three-step relay mechanism

S Han, H Li, T Li, F Chen, R Yang, Y Yu, B Zhang - Nature catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Ammonia plays a substantial role in agriculture and the next generation of carbon-free
energy supply. Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to NH3 is attractive for nitrate removal and …

Active hydrogen boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

K Fan, W **e, 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 …

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 …

Electrochemical ammonia synthesis via nitrate reduction on Fe single atom catalyst

ZY Wu, M Karamad, X Yong, Q Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemically converting nitrate, a widespread water pollutant, back to valuable
ammonia is a green and delocalized route for ammonia synthesis, and can be an appealing …

Tandem electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia on MBenes

G Zhang, X Li, K Chen, Y Guo, D Ma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate the great feasibility of MBenes as a new class of tandem catalysts for
electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (NO3RR). As a proof of concept, FeB2 is first …

Ampere-level current density ammonia electrochemical synthesis using CuCo nanosheets simulating nitrite reductase bifunctional nature

JY Fang, QZ Zheng, YY Lou, KM Zhao, SN Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of electrocatalysts capable of efficient reduction of nitrate (NO3−) to
ammonia (NH3) is drawing increasing interest for the sake of low carbon emission and …

Alloying of Cu with Ru enabling the relay catalysis for reduction of nitrate to ammonia

W Gao, K **e, J **e, X Wang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Involving eight electron transfer process and multiple intermediates of nitrate (NO3−)
reduction reaction leads to a sluggish kinetic and low Faradaic efficiency, therefore, it is …