Turning up the heat on photocatalytic ammonia production

Cheap, scalable, and efficient solar energy conversion technology is a promising alternative to the existing ammonia production industry. In the inaugural issue of Chem Catalysis, Zheng and co-workers address this by reporting the efficient production of ammonia from nitrogen by using a nature- inspired iron-molybdenum disulfide photocatalyst at elevated temperatures.

Automated summary

The research team successfully produced ammonia efficiently using an iron-molybdenum disulfide photocatalyst, providing an important reference for the development of cheap, scalable, and efficient solar energy conversion technology.