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The origin of overpotential in lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction

Published:2023 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1359-6640
Container-title:Faraday Discussions
language:en
Short-container-title:Faraday Discuss.

Author:

Westhead O.¹^ORCID,Tort R.²,Spry M.¹,Rietbrock J.¹,Jervis R.³^ORCID,Grimaud A.⁴⁵⁶,Bagger A.²^ORCID,Stephens I. E. L.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK

2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

3. Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, UK

4. Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Laboratory, UMR8260, CNRS, Collège de France, France

5. Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Energie (RS2E), CNRS FR 3459, 80039 Amiens Cedex 1, France

6. Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Abstract

We present a simple method for determining the reversible hydrogen electrode potential in a lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction system, and use this to highlight that the greatest source of cathodic potential loss is the requirement for in situ lithium plating.

Funder

Faraday Institution

Carlsbergfondet

H2020 European Research Council

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Royal Academy of Engineering

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/FD/D2FD00156J