Catalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia

SL Foster, SIP Bakovic, RD Duda, S Maheshwari… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
The production of synthetic ammonia remains dependent on the energy-and capital-
intensive Haber–Bosch process. Extensive research in molecular catalysis has …

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 …

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 …

Plasma-driven catalysis: green ammonia synthesis with intermittent electricity

KHR Rouwenhorst, Y Engelmann, K van't Veer… - Green chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia is one of the most produced chemicals, mainly synthesized from fossil fuels for
fertilizer applications. Furthermore, ammonia may be one of the energy carriers of the future …

Interlayer charge transfer regulates single-atom catalytic activity on electride/graphene 2D heterojunctions

W Li, C Liu, C Gu, JH Choi, S Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single-atom catalysts with structure and activity tunability have attracted significant attention
for energy and environmental applications. Herein we present a first-principles study of …

Advances in materials and applications of inorganic electrides

H Hosono, M Kitano - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrides are materials in which electrons serve as anions. Here, the concept of inorganic
electrides is extended in several respects: from ionic crystals to intermetallic compounds in …

Sulfur-doped g-C3N4 nanosheets with carbon vacancies: General synthesis and improved activity for simulated solar-light photocatalytic nitrogen fixation

S Cao, B Fan, Y Feng, H Chen, F Jiang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ultrathin sulfur-doped gC 3 N 4 porous nanosheets (SCNNSs) with large lateral size and
carbon vacancies were obtained by directly collecting the gaseous product of thiourea under …

Magnetic electrides: High-throughput material screening, intriguing properties, and applications

X Zhang, W Meng, Y Liu, X Dai, G Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrides are a unique class of electron-rich materials where excess electrons are localized
in interstitial lattice sites as anions, leading to a range of unique properties and applications …

Energy Decarbonization via Green H2 or NH3?

S Wu, N Salmon, MMJ Li, R Bañares-Alcántara… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Due to the global need to decarbonize, it is increasingly clear that we are heading toward a
new era of massive renewable energy generation and utilization to substitute fossil fuels …

Recent progress towards mild-condition ammonia synthesis

Q Wang, J Guo, P Chen - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Ammonia is essential for food and energy. Industrial ammonia synthesis via Haber–Bosch
process is energy-intensive and releases large amount of CO 2. Increasing research efforts …