Prospects and challenges of green ammonia synthesis

D Ye, SCE Tsang - Nature Synthesis, 2023 - nature.com
Ammonia is a chemical commodity in high demand, owing to its use in agriculture as well as
its potential as a chemical vector for renewable energy storage and transportation. At …

Carbon dots based photoinduced reactions: advances and perspective

Y Yu, Q Zeng, S Tao, C **a, C Liu, P Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Seeking clean energy as an alternative to traditional fossil fuels is the inevitable choice to
realize the sustainable development of the society. Photocatalytic technique is considered a …

Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO (111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition

H Fang, S Wu, T Ayvali, J Zheng, J Fellowes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ammonia is regarded as an energy vector for hydrogen storage, transport and utilization,
which links to usage of renewable energies. However, efficient catalysts for ammonia …

Advanced electrocatalysts with single-metal-atom active sites

Y Wang, H Su, Y He, L Li, S Zhu, H Shen, P **e… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysts with single metal atoms as active sites have received increasing attention
owing to their high atomic utilization efficiency and exotic catalytic activity and selectivity …

Progress in green ammonia production as potential carbon-free fuel

G Chehade, I Dincer - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the challenges, opportunities and future potentials with ammonia as a
carbon-free fuel, and covers recent technological solutions to overcome the barriers with the …

Z-scheme systems: From fundamental principles to characterization, synthesis, and photocatalytic fuel-conversion applications

G Liao, C Li, SY Liu, B Fang, H Yang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Z-scheme photocatalysts have recently received tremendous attention because of their
extraordinary light harvesting and utilization ability, spatially-separated reductive and …

Development and recent progress on ammonia synthesis catalysts for Haber–Bosch process

J Humphreys, R Lan, S Tao - Advanced Energy and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its essential use as a fertilizer, ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and hydrogen is
considered to be one of the most important chemical processes of the last 100 years. Since …

Strategies to suppress hydrogen evolution for highly selective electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction: challenges and perspectives

Y Ren, C Yu, X Tan, H Huang, Q Wei… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia, as a significant chemical for fertilizer production and also a promising energy
carrier, is mainly produced through the traditional energy-intensive Haber–Bosch process …

Green ammonia production technologies: A review of practical progress

OA Ojelade, SF Zaman, BJ Ni - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the prevalence of nitrogen (N 2) in the air, it is critical for the efficient functioning of
living creatures (plants and animals). Although naturally occurring N 2 is inert, the N 2 …

Vacancy-enabled N2 activation for ammonia synthesis on an Ni-loaded catalyst

TN Ye, SW Park, Y Lu, J Li, M Sasase, M Kitano… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ammonia (NH3) is pivotal to the fertilizer industry and one of the most commonly produced
chemicals. The direct use of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) had been challenging, owing to its …