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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 140, 期 4, 页码 1496-1501出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12101
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- Research Grant Council [26206115]
- Guangdong Special Fund for Science and Technology Development - Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme [201604030012, 201704030065]
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory project [ZDSYS201603311013489]
The electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia on Au-based catalysts showed a reasonably high Coulombic efficiency. The pathway of this promising reaction, however, is not clear partially due to the lack of information on reaction intermediates. Herein, surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) was employed to study the reaction mechanisms of nitrogen reduction on an Au thin film for the first time. During the nitrogen reduction, the N2Hy species was detected with bands at 1453 (H-N-H bending), 1298 (-NH2 wagging), and 1109 cm(-1) (N-N stretching) at potentials below 0 V against reversible hydrogen electrode. This result indicates that the nitrogen reduction reaction on Au surfaces follows an associative mechanism, and the N N bond in N-2 tends to break simultaneously with the hydrogen addition. By comparison, no absorption band associated with N was observed on Pt surfaces under the same reaction condition. This result is consistent with the low efficiency of nitrogen reduction on Pt due to the much faster kinetics of hydrogen evolution reaction.
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