Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

GFSR Rocha, MAR da Silva, A Rogolino… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been
found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces …

Carbon dioxide emissions, capture, storage and utilization: Review of materials, processes and technologies

TM Gür - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an essential component of mitigating climate change,
which arguably presents an existential challenge to our planet. Although CO 2 emissions …

Continuous-flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation

X Fu, JB Pedersen, Y Zhou, M Saccoccio, S Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ammonia is a critical component in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and fine chemicals and is an
ideal, carbon-free fuel. Recently, lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction has proven to be a …

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 …

Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …

Regulating active hydrogen adsorbed on grain boundary defects of nano-nickel for boosting ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate

J Zhou, M Wen, R Huang, Q Wu, Y Luo… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NitRR) into ammonia is a promising route for
sustainable ammonia synthesis under ambient conditions. Since the hydrogen evolution …

Oxygen vacancy-mediated selective C–N coupling toward electrocatalytic urea synthesis

X Wei, X Wen, Y Liu, C Chen, C **e… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electrocatalytic C–N coupling for one-step urea synthesis under ambient conditions
serves as the promising alternative to the traditional urea synthetic protocol. However, the …

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 progress and strategies on the design of catalysts for electrochemical ammonia synthesis from nitrate reduction

W Song, L Yue, X Fan, Y Luo, B Ying, S Sun… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3) is an essential raw material in the production of fertilizers and a promising
carbon-free energy carrier, however, its synthesis still depends on the energy-and capital …

Environmental remediation and sustainable energy generation via photocatalytic technology using rare earth metals modified g-C3N4: A review

M Ismael - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) photocatalyst has been comprehensively
explored because of its exceptional physio-chemical properties and multifunctional …