Unveiling cutting‐edge developments in electrocatalytic nitrate‐to‐ammonia conversion

H Zhang, H Wang, X Cao, M Chen, Y Liu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The excessive enrichment of nitrate in the environment can be converted into ammonia
(NH3) through electrochemical processes, offering significant implications for modern …

Recent advances in electrocatalysts for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia

D Liu, L Qiao, S Peng, H Bai, C Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia as an irreplaceable chemical has been widely demanded to keep the sustainable
development of the modern society. However, its industrial production consumes huge …

Advances in ammonia electrosynthesis from ambient nitrate/nitrite reduction

J Liang, Z Li, L Zhang, X He, Y Luo, D Zheng, Y Wang… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Designing genuine electrocatalysts that selectively reduce nitrate/nitrite (NO x−) is becoming
ever more vital to produce ammonia (NH 3) sustainably, safeguard the environment, and …

Emerging applications, developments, prospects, and challenges of electrochemical nitrate‐to‐ammonia conversion

W Chen, X Yang, Z Chen, Z Ou, J Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia is not only an important feedstock for chemical industry but also a carbon‐free
energy carrier and a safe storage media for hydrogen. Due to the advantages compared to …

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 …

Kinetically matched C–N coupling toward efficient urea electrosynthesis enabled on copper single-atom alloy

M Xu, F Wu, Y Zhang, Y Yao, G Zhu, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chemical C–N coupling from CO2 and NO3–, driven by renewable electricity, toward urea
synthesis is an appealing alternative for Bosch–Meiser urea production. However, the …

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 …

Durable Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia over Defective Pseudobrookite Fe2TiO5 Nanofibers with Abundant Oxygen Vacancies

H Du, H Guo, K Wang, X Du, BA Beshiwork… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose the pseudobrookite Fe2TiO5 nanofiber with abundant oxygen vacancies as a
new electrocatalyst to ambiently reduce nitrate to ammonia. Such catalyst achieves a large …

Atomic coordination environment engineering of bimetallic alloy nanostructures for efficient ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate

Y Wang, M Sun, J Zhou, Y **ong, Q Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR) to ammonia has been regarded as a
promising strategy to balance the global nitrogen cycle. However, it still suffers from poor …

Elucidating electrochemical nitrate and nitrite reduction over atomically-dispersed transition metal sites

E Murphy, Y Liu, I Matanovic, M Rüscher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic reduction of waste nitrates (NO3−) enables the synthesis of ammonia (NH3)
in a carbon neutral and decentralized manner. Atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon …