Grain boundary engineering: An emerging pathway toward efficient electrocatalysis

X Xu, Y Zhong, M Wajrak, T Bhatelia, SP Jiang… - InfoMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical transformation processes involving carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
and small‐molecule chemistries represent a promising means to store renewable energy …

Review on electrocatalytic coreduction of carbon dioxide and nitrogenous species for urea synthesis

M Jiang, M Zhu, M Wang, Y He, X Luo, C Wu, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical coreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogenous species (such as
NO3–, NO2–, N2, and NO) for urea synthesis under ambient conditions provides a …

Active hydrogen boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

K Fan, W **e, J Li, Y Sun, P Xu, Y Tang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia is a promising alternative strategy to the
traditional Haber-Bosch process but suffers from a low Faradaic efficiency and limited …

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 …

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 …

Lithium-mediated ammonia electrosynthesis with ether-based electrolytes

X Cai, X Li, J You, F Yang, Z Shadike… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ammonia is of great importance in fertilizer production and chemical synthesis. It can also
potentially serve as a carbon-free energy carrier for a future hydrogen economy. Motivated …

Electroreduction of nitrogen with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency

HL Du, M Chatti, RY Hodgetts, PV Cherepanov… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In addition to its use in the fertilizer and chemical industries, ammonia is currently seen as a
potential replacement for carbon-based fuels and as a carrier for worldwide transportation of …

Design concept for electrocatalysts

Y Wang, X Zheng, D Wang - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Metal-based electrocatalysts with different sizes (single atoms, nanoclusters, and
nanoparticles) show different catalytic behaviors for various electrocatalytic reactions …

A defect engineered electrocatalyst that promotes high-efficiency urea synthesis under ambient conditions

C Lv, C Lee, L Zhong, H Liu, J Liu, L Yang, C Yan… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesizing urea from nitrate and carbon dioxide through an electrocatalysis approach
under ambient conditions is extraordinarily sustainable. However, this approach still lacks …