Recent advances in electrocatalysts for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia

D Liu, L Qiao, S Peng, H Bai, C Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia as an irreplaceable chemical has been widely demanded to keep the sustainable
development of the modern society. However, its industrial production consumes huge …

Electrochemical nitrate reduction: ammonia synthesis and the beyond

Y **ong, 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 …

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 reduction of nitrate to ammonia via direct eight-electron transfer using a copper–molecular solid catalyst

GF Chen, Y Yuan, H Jiang, SY Ren, LX Ding, L Ma… - Nature Energy, 2020 - nature.com
Ammonia (NH3) is essential for modern agriculture and industry and is a potential energy
carrier. NH3 is traditionally synthesized by the Haber–Bosch process at high temperature …

Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

S Zhang, J Wu, M Zheng, X **, Z Shen, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia offers an efficient approach to reducing
nitrate pollutants and a potential technology for low-temperature and low-pressure ammonia …

Pulsed nitrate-to-ammonia electroreduction facilitated by tandem catalysis of nitrite intermediates

P Li, R Li, Y Liu, M **e, Z **, G Yu - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia offers a promising pathway for nutrient recycling and
recovery from wastewater with energy and environmental sustainability. There have been …

Enhanced nitrate-to-ammonia activity on copper–nickel alloys via tuning of intermediate adsorption

Y Wang, A Xu, Z Wang, L Huang, J Li, F Li… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate (NO3–) into ammonia (NH3) recycles nitrogen and
offers a route to the production of NH3, which is more valuable than dinitrogen gas …

Reaction intermediate-mediated electrocatalyst synthesis favors specified facet and defect exposure for efficient nitrate–ammonia conversion

Q Hu, Y Qin, X Wang, Z Wang, X Huang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrochemical nitrate (NO3−) reduction reaction (NO3− RR), with much faster kinetics
than the nitrogen (N2) reduction, provides new opportunities to harvest ammonia (NH3) …

Electrical Pulse‐Driven Periodic Self‐Repair of Cu‐Ni Tandem Catalyst for Efficient Ammonia Synthesis from Nitrate

Y Bu, C Wang, W Zhang, X Yang, J Ding… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction sustainably produces ammonia and alleviates water
pollution, yet is still challenging due to the kinetic mismatch and hydrogen evolution …

Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals

RM Bullock, JG Chen, L Gagliardi, PJ Chirik, OK Farha… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Catalysis has had a transformative impact on society, playing a crucial role
in the production of modern materials, medicines, fuels, and chemicals. Precious metals …