Electrochemical C–N coupling of CO 2 and nitrogenous small molecules for the electrosynthesis of organonitrogen compounds

X Peng, L Zeng, D Wang, Z Liu, Y Li, Z Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical C–N coupling reactions based on abundant small molecules (such as CO2
and N2) have attracted increasing attention as a new “green synthetic strategy” for the …

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 …

Enhancing electrocatalytic water splitting by strain engineering

B You, MT Tang, C Tsai, F Abild‐Pedersen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical water splitting driven by sustainable energy such as solar, wind, and tide is
attracting ever‐increasing attention for sustainable production of clean hydrogen fuel from …

C–H bond activation in light alkanes: a theoretical perspective

Y Wang, P Hu, J Yang, YA Zhu, D Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Alkanes are the major constituents of natural gas and crude oil, the feedstocks for the
chemical industry. The efficient and selective activation of C–H bonds can convert abundant …

Determining the adsorption energies of small molecules with the intrinsic properties of adsorbates and substrates

W Gao, Y Chen, B Li, SP Liu, X Liu, Q Jiang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Adsorption is essential for many processes on surfaces; therefore, an accurate prediction of
adsorption properties is demanded from both fundamental and technological points of view …

Computational predictions of energy materials using density functional theory

A Jain, Y Shin, KA Persson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
In the search for new functional materials, quantum mechanics is an exciting starting point.
The fundamental laws that govern the behaviour of electrons have the possibility, at the …

Selectivity between oxygen and chlorine evolution in the chlor-alkali and chlorate processes

RKB Karlsson, A Cornell - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Chlorine gas and sodium chlorate are two base chemicals produced through electrolysis of
sodium chloride brine which find uses in many areas of industrial chemistry. Although the …

Convolutional neural network of atomic surface structures to predict binding energies for high-throughput screening of catalysts

S Back, J Yoon, N Tian, W Zhong, K Tran… - The journal of physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
High-throughput screening of catalysts can be performed using density functional theory
calculations to predict catalytic properties, often correlated with adsorbate binding energies …

The surface states of transition metal X-ides under electrocatalytic conditions

H Liu, X Jia, A Cao, L Wei, C D'agostino… - The Journal of chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Due to conversion equilibrium between solvent and H-and O-containing adsorbates, the true
surface state of a catalyst under a particular electrochemical condition is often overlooked in …