Isolating Cu-Zn active-sites in Ordered Intermetallics to Enhance Nitrite-to-Ammonia Electroreduction
Jiao Lan, Zhen Wang, Cheng-wei Kao, Ying-Rui Lu, Feng Xie, Yongwen Tan · 2024
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Lan and five co-authors report a catalyst that turns nitrite into ammonia, in work from twenty twenty-four. Making ammonia the green way, without the high heat Haber Bosch process, is a major goal. Nitrite in waste water could be a feedstock, but yields at low levels were poor.
Their catalyst is a porous copper zinc alloy with isolated paired active sites. In neutral water it reached very high efficiency for ammonia over a wide voltage range. In a membrane device it ran stably at high current for hundreds of hours and removed almost all nitrite. In situ tests traced how the paired sites do the work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiao Lan, Zhen Wang, Cheng-wei Kao, Ying-Rui Lu, Feng Xie, Yongwen Tan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |