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 …

Recent advances in electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis

L Ouyang, J Liang, Y Luo, D Zheng, S Sun, Q Liu… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial electrocatalytic ammonia (NH 3) synthesis is recently becoming a research hotspot.
It can couple with clean renewable electricity, which is considered an energy-efficient and …

Electrochemical nitrate reduction in acid enables high-efficiency ammonia synthesis and high-voltage pollutes-based fuel cells

R Zhang, C Li, H Cui, Y Wang, S Zhang, P Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most current research is devoted to electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction for ammonia
synthesis under alkaline/neutral media while the investigation of nitrate reduction under …

Intermetallic single-atom alloy In–Pd bimetallene for neutral electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrate

M **e, S Tang, Z Li, M Wang, Z **, P Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Harvesting recyclable ammonia (NH3) from the electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate (NO3RR)
offers a sustainable strategy to close the ecological nitrogen cycle from nitration …

Water electrolysis

AJ Shih, MCO Monteiro, F Dattila, D Pavesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemistry has the potential to sustainably transform molecules with electrons
supplied by renewable electricity. It is one of many solutions towards a more circular …

Pulsed electroreduction of low-concentration nitrate to ammonia

Y Huang, C He, C Cheng, S Han, M He, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Electrocatalytic nitrate (NO3−) reduction to ammonia (NRA) has emerged as an
alternative strategy for effluent treatment and ammonia production. Despite significant …

Efficient tandem electroreduction of nitrate into ammonia through coupling Cu single atoms with adjacent Co3O4

Y Liu, J Wei, Z Yang, L Zheng, J Zhao, Z Song… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The nitrate (NO3−) electroreduction into ammonia (NH3) represents a promising
approach for sustainable NH3 synthesis. However, the variation of adsorption configurations …

Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia with cation shuttling in a solid electrolyte reactor

FY Chen, A Elgazzar, S Pecaut, C Qiu, Y Feng… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
While electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia represents a promising route for water
treatment and ammonia generation, one critical challenge in the field is the need for high …

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 …

Electrocatalytic Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction toward Ammonia Using Cu2O Nanocubes: Active Species and Reaction Mechanisms

L Bai, F Franco, J Timoshenko… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical reduction of nitrate (NO3–) and nitrite (NO2–) enables sustainable,
carbon-neutral, and decentralized routes to produce ammonia (NH3). Copper-based …