Boosting nitrate electroreduction to ammonia on NbOxvia constructing oxygen vacancies-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Boosting nitrate electroreduction to ammonia on NbO_xvia constructing oxygen vacancies

Published:2022 Issue:3 Volume:24 Page:1090-1095
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

Wan Xuefei¹,Guo Weiwei²,Dong Xue¹,Wu Haihong¹^ORCID,Sun Xiaofu²^ORCID,Chu Mengen¹,Han Shitao¹,Zhai Jianxin¹,Xia Wei¹,Jia Shuaiqiang¹^ORCID,He Mingyuan¹,Han Buxing¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

2. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Abstract

A NbOx catalyst with oxygen vacancies is synthesized and used for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia. The faradaic efficiency of 94.5% and the NH3 formation rate of 55.0 μg h−1 mgcat−1 can be achieved in a neutral electrolyte.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/GC/D1GC04483D

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