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Nanoporous NiSb to Enhance Nitrogen Electroreduction via Tailoring Competitive Adsorption Sites

Guilan Fan, Wence Xu, Jinhan Li, Jia‐Liang Chen, Meng Yu, Youxuan Ni, Shengli Zhu, Xun‐Cheng Su, Fangyi Cheng

Advanced Materials· Volume 33· Issue 42
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Abstract

Abstract Ambient nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is attracting extensive interest but still suffers from sluggish kinetics owing to competitive rapid hydrogen evolution and difficult nitrogen activation. Herein, nanoporous NiSb alloy is reported as an efficient electrocatalyst for N2 fixation, achieving a high ammonia yield rate of 56.9 µg h−1 mg−1 with a Faradaic efficiency of 48.0%. Density functional theory calculations reveal that in NiSb alloy, Ni favors N2 hydrogenation while the neighboring Sb separates active sites for proton and N2 adsorption, which optimizes the adsorption/desorption of intermediates and enables an energetically favorable NRR pathway. This work indicates promising electrocatalytic application of the alloys of 3d and p block metals toward the NRR and provides an intriguing strategy to enhance the reduction of inert molecules by restraining the competitive hydrogen adsorption.
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Metals & alloysNanomaterialsCatalysis & surfaces

OpenAlex topics: Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction · Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Engineering Research Center of High‐efficiency Energy Storage (Ministry of Education) Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China

State Key Laboratory of Elemento‐Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology College of Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China

School of Materials Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities · China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists

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