Citation: Hong-Rui Li, Xia Kang, Rui Gao, Miao-Miao Shi, Bo Bi, Ze-Yu Chen, Jun-Min Yan. Interfacial interactions of Cu/MnOOH enhance ammonia synthesis from electrochemical nitrate reduction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(2): 109958. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109958 shu

Interfacial interactions of Cu/MnOOH enhance ammonia synthesis from electrochemical nitrate reduction

Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China

miaomiaoshi@jlu.edu.cn

junminyan@jlu.edu.cn

Received Date: 27 November 2023
Revised Date: 5 April 2024
Accepted Date: 30 April 2024
Available Online: 1 May 2024

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In this work, an effective catalyst of Cu/MnOOH has been successfully constructed for electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (eNO₃RR) for synthesis of ammonia (NH₃) under ambient conditions. The substrate of MnOOH plays an important role on the size and electronic structure of Cu nanoparticles, where Cu has the ultrafine size of 2.2 nm and positive shift of its valence states, which in turn causes the increased number of Cu active sites and enhanced intrinsic activity of every active site. As a result, this catalyst realizes an excellent catalytic performance on eNO₃RR with the maximal NH₃ Faraday efficiency (FE) (96.8%) and the highest yield rate (55.51 mg h⁻¹ cm⁻²) at a large NH₃ partial current density of 700 mA/cm², which could help to promote the industrialization of NH₃ production under ambient conditions.
- Ammonia,
- Nitrate reduction reaction,
- Adsorption,
- Electrocatalysis,
- Interfacial interactions
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