Amide-engineered copper nitride for shortcut-pathway-locked electroreduction of concentrated hydroxymethylfurfural
Ju Huang, Jianqiu Zhu, Bowen Liu, Chencheng Dai, Zhimin Chen, Hao Wu, Gang Li, Shichao Du, Jian-Qiang Wang, Zhiyu Ren, Zhichuan J Xu, Honggang Fu · 2026
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Description
Huang and co-authors build a copper nitride catalyst, dressed with amide groups, to convert a plant derived chemical into a useful building block with electricity. Making the target product cleanly at high feed strength is hard, since crowding at the surface blocks active sites. Their 2026 study designs twin nitrogen sites to balance the competing steps.
One nitrogen type helps split water to supply hydrogen, while the amide nitrogen tunes how the feed chemical sits on the surface. Together they lower energy barriers for both key steps. The catalyst reached over 99 percent selectivity and high current efficiency at strong feed levels. A paired electrolysis setup made valued products at both electrodes at once.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ju Huang, Jianqiu Zhu, Bowen Liu, Chencheng Dai, Zhimin Chen, Hao Wu, Gang Li, Shichao Du, Jian-Qiang Wang, Zhiyu Ren, Zhichuan J Xu, Honggang Fu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 75 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |