Citation: Jing Miao, Qingling Hong, Liping Liang, Guomin Li, Zhihong Liu, Shibin Yin, Yu Chen. B and Fe co-doped Co₂P hollow nanocubes for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 108935. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108935 shu

B and Fe co-doped Co₂P hollow nanocubes for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia

Jing Miao ^a ,
Qingling Hong ^b ,
Liping Liang ^a ,
Guomin Li ^a ,
Zhihong Liu ^{c, *,} ,
Shibin Yin ^{d, *,} ,
Yu Chen ^{b, *,}

a.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
b.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
c.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
d.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

liuzh@snnu.edu.cn

yinshibin@gxu.edu.cn

ndchenyu@gmail.com

Received Date: 8 June 2023
Revised Date: 12 August 2023
Accepted Date: 15 August 2023
Available Online: 17 August 2023

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Nitrate (NO₃⁻) electroreduction reaction (NO₃⁻RR) provides an attractive and sustainable route for NO₃⁻ pollution mitigation or energy-saved ammonia (NH₃) synthesis. In this work, high-quality B and Fe co-doped Co₂P hollow nanocubes (B/Fe-Co₂P HNCs) are successfully synthesized though simultaneous boronation-phosphorization treatment, which reveal outstanding selectivity, activity, stability for the NO₃⁻ to NH₃ conversion in neutral electrolyte because of big surface area, fast mass transport, superhydrophilic surface, and optimized electronic structure. B/Fe-Co₂P HNCs can achieve the high NH₃ yield rate (22.67 mg h⁻¹ mg_cat⁻¹) as well as Faradaic efficiency (97.54%) for NO₃⁻RR, greatly outperforming most of non-precious metal based NO₃⁻RR electrocatalysts.
- Nitrate electroreduction reaction,
- Ammonia synthesis,
- Transition metal phosphides,
- Hollow nanocubes
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