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 …

Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials

K Zuo, S Garcia-Segura, GA Cerrón-Calle… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrified processes are a versatile way of removing a wide range of contaminants from
water, especially those that are difficult to treat using conventional methods. Electrified …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Advances in ammonia electrosynthesis from ambient nitrate/nitrite reduction

J Liang, Z Li, L Zhang, X He, Y Luo, D Zheng, Y Wang… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Designing genuine electrocatalysts that selectively reduce nitrate/nitrite (NO x−) is becoming
ever more vital to produce ammonia (NH 3) sustainably, safeguard the environment, and …

Thermally enhanced relay electrocatalysis of nitrate-to-ammonia reduction over single-atom-alloy oxides

K Liu, H Li, M **e, P Wang, Z **, Y Liu… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR) holds promise for converting
nitrogenous pollutants to valuable ammonia products. However, conventional …

Selective electrochemical synthesis of urea from nitrate and CO2 via relay catalysis on hybrid catalysts

Y Luo, K **e, P Ou, C Lavallais, T Peng, Z Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The nitrogen cycle needed for scaled agriculture relies on energy-and carbon-intensive
processes and generates nitrate-containing wastewater. Here we focus on an alternative …