Near-Unity Nitrate to Ammonia conversion via reactant enrichment at the solid-liquid interface

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 5715 - 12
• Main Authors: Liao, Wanru, Wang, Jun, Tan, Yao, Zi, Xin, Liu, Changxu, Wang, Qiyou, Zhu, Li, Kao, Cheng-Wei, Chan, Ting-Shan, Li, Hongmei, Zhang, Yali, Liu, Kang, Cai, Chao, Fu, Junwei, Xi, Beidou, Cortés, Emiliano, Chai, Liyuan, Liu, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2025; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 147/135; 147/143; 639/301/299/886; 639/638/169/896; 639/638/675; 639/638/77/887; Agricultural production; Ammonia; Carbon; Efficiency; Electrolytes; Electrowinning; Energy; Enrichment; Groundwater; Humanities and Social Sciences; Liquid-solid interfaces; Mass transfer; Molybdenum disulfide; Morphology; multidisciplinary; Nitrates; Scanning electron microscopy; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Silver

Electroreduction of nitrate (NO 3 ‒ ) to ammonia (NH 3 ) is a promising approach for addressing energy challenges. However, the activity is limited by NO 3 ‒ mass transfer, particularly at reduction potential, where an abundance of electrons on the cathode surface repels NO 3 ‒ from the inner Helmho...