A single-site iron catalyst with preoccupied active centers that achieves selective ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate

• DOI: 10.1039/d1ee00545f
• Publication Date: 2021-04-16T16:13:28Z
• Authors: Panpan Li; Zhaoyu Jin; Zhiwei Fang; Guihua Yu
• Keywords: Electrosynthesis; Ammonia production

Isolated Fe sites achieve enhanced intrinsic activity for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia with ∼100% selectivity, which effectively inhibit water dissociation through a nitrate-preoccupation mechanism.