Researchers proposed a novel strategy for using a magnetic field to boost the efficiency of single-atom catalysts -- thus speeding up helpful reactions used for ammonia production and wastewater ...

Our lab has developed a plasma electrochemical reactor system capable of converting air directly into ammonia, a commodity chemical widely used in fertilizer production. Our technology is highly ...

The findings were published recently in ACS Energy Letters. While there are many research efforts on electrochemical ammonia production, the underlying mechanisms have yet to be better understood ...

More information: Anquan Zhu et al, Facet-Dependent Evolution of Active Components on Spinel Co3O4 for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis, ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c06637 ...

Imagine if we could make chemical reactions thousands of times faster just by using a magnetic field. That’s exactly what ...

Remarkably, RuFe nanoflowers demonstrated much better electrochemical performance ... h −1 mgcat −1 at −0.30 and −0.65 V for ammonia production, which is almost 6.9 times that of sole ...

Electrochemical ammonia synthesis, which has become a popular research topic, enables the thermodynamically non-spontaneous ammonia synthesis reaction to be realized under ambient conditions ...

A. El-Sayed’s group (2020) from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA explores the use of porous bimetallic Pd-Ag nanocatalysts in both gas-phase and liquid-phase electrochemical cells, demonstrating ...

This plasma-electrochemical reactor, described in a study published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society, can sustain a high ammonia production rate of approximately 1 gram per day for over ...

electrochemical ammonia synthesis, carbon-dioxide reduction, and lignin oxidation. He has led projects funded by the Dutch Research Council Open Competition Program, Bruker Collaboration, ...

A new one-step electrochemical method promises ... Around 80% of the ammonia produced globally goes to urea production. And the Haber-Bosch process that makes ammonia requires temperatures of ...