Boosting nitrate electroreduction to ammonia on NbOxvia constructing oxygen vacancies

Authors: Xuefei Wan, Weiwei Guo, Xue Dong, Haihong Wu, Xiaofu Sun, Mengen Chu, Shitao Han, Jianxin Zhai, Wei Xia, Shuaiqiang Jia, Mingyuan He, Buxing Han - Green Chemistry 2022 cited by 58

A NbO x catalyst with oxygen vacancies is synthesized and used for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia. The faradaic efficiency of 94.5% and the NH 3 formation rate of 55.0 μg h −1 mg cat −1 can be achieved in a neutral electrolyte.