Citation: Ting Xie, Xun He, Lang He, Kai Dong, Yongchao Yao, Zhengwei Cai, Xuwei Liu, Xiaoya Fan, Tengyue Li, Dongdong Zheng, Shengjun Sun, Luming Li, Wei Chu, Asmaa Farouk, Mohamed S. Hamdy, Chenggang Xu, Qingquan Kong, Xuping Sun. CoSe₂ nanowire array enabled highly efficient electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate for ammonia synthesis[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(11): 110005. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110005 shu

CoSe₂ nanowire array enabled highly efficient electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate for ammonia synthesis

Ting Xie ^a ,
Xun He ^b ,
Lang He ^b ,
Kai Dong ^c ,
Yongchao Yao ^b ,
Zhengwei Cai ^c ,
Xuwei Liu ^b ,
Xiaoya Fan ^b ,
Tengyue Li ^b ,
Dongdong Zheng ^b ,
Shengjun Sun ^c ,
Luming Li ^d ,
Wei Chu ^d ,
Asmaa Farouk ^e ,
Mohamed S. Hamdy ^e ,
Chenggang Xu ^{a, *,} ,
Qingquan Kong ^{d, *,} ,
Xuping Sun ^{b, c, *,}

a.
College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China
b.
Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
c.
College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan 250014, China
d.
Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China
e.
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, 61413 Abha, Saudi Arabia

xucgg@163.com

kongqingquan@cdu.edu.cn

xpsun@uestc.edu.cn

Received Date: 13 February 2024
Revised Date: 10 May 2024
Accepted Date: 13 May 2024
Available Online: 14 May 2024

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The electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate (NO₃^–) not only facilitates the environmentally sustainable production of ammonia (NH₃) but also purifies water by removing NO₃^–, thereby transforming waste into valuable resources. The process of converting NO₃^– to NH₃ is complex, involving eight electron transfers and multiple intermediates, making the choice of electrocatalyst critical. In this study, we report a cobalt selenide (CoSe₂) nanowire array on carbon cloth (CoSe₂/CC) as an effective electrocatalyst for the NO₃^– to NH₃ conversion. In an alkaline medium with 0.1 mol/L NO₃^–, CoSe₂/CC demonstrates exceptional NH₃ Faradaic efficiency of 97.6% and a high NH₃ yield of 517.7 µmol h^–1 cm^–2 at –0.6 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode. Furthermore, insights into the reaction mechanism of CoSe₂ in the electrocatalytic NO₃^– reduction are elucidated through density functional theory calculations.
- CoSe₂,
- Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction,
- NH₃ synthesis,
- Electrocatalysis,
- Density functional theory calculation
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