Competing hydrogen evolution reaction: a challenge in electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Competing hydrogen evolution reaction: a challenge in electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation

Published:2021 Issue:16 Volume:5 Page:5954-5969
ISSN:2052-1537
Container-title:Materials Chemistry Frontiers
language:en
Short-container-title:Mater. Chem. Front.

Author:

Chen Jiangyue¹²³⁴,Cheng Hui¹²³⁴,Ding Liang-Xin¹²³⁴^ORCID,Wang Haihui⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

2. South China University of Technology

3. Guangzhou 510640

4. China

5. Department of Chemical Engineering

6. Tsinghua University

7. Beijing 100084

Abstract

The electrocatalytic N₂ reduction reaction (NRR) under mild conditions is a promising candidate for NH₃ synthesis. Nevertheless, competition between the H₂ evolution reaction and the NRR results in a low NH₃ yield rate and poor faradaic efficiency.

Funder

Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Materials Chemistry,General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/QM/D1QM00546D

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