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Competition between metal-catalysed electroreduction of dinitrogen, protons, and nitrogen oxides: a DFT perspective

Published:2022 Issue:9 Volume:12 Page:2856-2864
ISSN:2044-4753
Container-title:Catalysis Science & Technology
language:en
Short-container-title:Catal. Sci. Technol.

Author:

Carro Pilar¹^ORCID,Choi Jaecheol²³,MacFarlane Douglas R.²³^ORCID,Simonov Alexandr N.²³^ORCID,Doña-Rodríguez José Miguel⁴^ORCID,Azofra Luis Miguel⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Área de Química Física, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Laguna, Instituto de Materiales y Nanotecnología, Avda. Francisco Sánchez, s/n, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

2. School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia

3. ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia

4. Instituto de Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Campus de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Abstract

Metals are common electrocatalysts for N2-into-NH3 reduction. In protic media, H+ competes with N2 to be reduced into H2. NOx, common air pollutants, are predicted to be more selectively converted into NH3 than N2, and even more than H+ into H2.

Funder

Australian Research Council

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Catalysis

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/CY/D2CY00389A

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