Journal
SMALL METHODS
Volume 3, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smtd.201800376
Keywords
first-principle calculations; high-throughput; N-2 fixation; single atom catalysts; two-step strategies
Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0204800]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21525311, 21773027]
- Jiangsu 333 Project [BRA2016353]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201706090115]
- Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province in China [KYCX17_0044]
- Australian Research Council [DP170103598]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China [KYCX17_0044]
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Electrocatalytic or photocatalytic N-2 reduction holds great promise for green and sustainable NH3 production under ambient conditions, where an efficient catalyst plays a crucial role but remains a long-standing challenge. Here, a high-throughput screening of catalysts for N-2 reduction among (nitrogen-doped) graphene-supported single atom catalysts is performed based on a general two-step strategy. 10 promising candidates with excellent performance are extracted from 540 systems. Most strikingly, a single W atom embedded in graphene with three C atom coordination (W1C3) exhibits the best performance with an extremely low onset potential of 0.25 V. This study not only provides a series of promising catalysts for N-2 fixation, but also paves a new way for the rational design of catalysts for N-2 fixation under ambient conditions.
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