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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 31, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202008533
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ammonia synthesis; electrocatalysis; first‐ principles calculations; nitrate reduction; single‐ atom catalysts
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- Wuhan University
Selective nitrate-to-ammonia electrochemical conversion is an efficient pathway to solve nitrate pollution, and current research on single-atom catalysts demonstrates high efficiency and selectivity in NO3RR, paving the way for further development in this area.
Selective nitrate-to-ammonia electrochemical conversion is an efficient pathway to solve the pollution of nitrate and an attractive strategy for low-temperature ammonia synthesis. However, current studies for nitrate electroreduction (NO3RR) mainly focus on metal-based catalysts, which remains challenging because of the poor understanding of the catalytic mechanism. Herein, taking single transition metal atom supported on graphitic carbon nitrides (g-CN) as an example, the NO3RR feasibility of single-atom catalysts (SACs) is first demonstrated by using density functional theory calculations. The results reveal that highly efficient NO3RR toward NH3 can be achieved on Ti/g-CN and Zr/g-CN with low limiting potentials of -0.39 and -0.41 V, respectively. Furthermore, the considerable energy barriers are observed during the formation of byproducts NO2, NO, N2O, and N-2 on Ti/g-CN and Zr/g-CN, guaranteeing their high selectivity. This work provides a new route for the application of SACs and paves the way to the development of NO3RR.
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