Iron-Doped Titanium Dioxide Hollow Nanospheres for Efficient Nitrogen Fixation and Zn-N2 Aqueous Battery

Author(s):  
Xian-Wei Lv ◽  
Xiaolu Liu ◽  
Lijiao Gao ◽  
Yuping Liu ◽  
Zhong-Yong Yuan

Electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) shows great potential for replacing energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, but requires highly active electrocatalytic centers. Although various catalysts for NRR have been developed recently, the inefficiency...

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 974
Author(s):  
Bing Han ◽  
Haihong Meng ◽  
Fengyu Li ◽  
Jingxiang Zhao

Under the current double challenge of energy and the environment, an effective nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) has become a very urgent need. However, the largest production of ammonia gas today is carried out by the Haber–Bosch process, which has many disadvantages, among which energy consumption and air pollution are typical. As the best alternative procedure, electrochemistry has received extensive attention. In this paper, a catalyst loaded with Fe3 clusters on the two-dimensional material C2N (Fe3@C2N) is proposed to achieve effective electrochemical NRR, and our first-principles calculations reveal that the stable Fe3@C2N exhibits excellent catalytic performance for electrochemical nitrogen fixation with a limiting potential of 0.57 eV, while also suppressing the major competing hydrogen evolution reaction. Our findings will open a new door for the development of non-precious single-cluster catalysts for effective nitrogen reduction reactions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 6540-6552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Navaei Alvar ◽  
Biao Zhou ◽  
S. Holger Eichhorn

Embedding carbon via polymer coating and reductive calcination to increase the conductivity and external surface area of mesoporous Nb-doped titanium dioxide nanofibers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 5209-5216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zafari ◽  
Deepak Kumar ◽  
Muhammad Umer ◽  
Kwang S. Kim

Machine learning (ML) methods would significantly reduce the computational burden of catalysts screening for nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR).


Author(s):  
Hongxi Zhang ◽  
Zengyao Wang ◽  
Jianfeng Shen ◽  
Mingxin Ye

The electro-catalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure had a great potential in NH3 production, but the low product yield because of the low density of...


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