Recent progress in electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen: strategies to improve the catalytic activity and selectivity

doi:10.1039/d0ee02263b

	Recent progress in electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen: strategies to improve the catalytic activity and selectivity
	Yang, Bing; Ding, Weilu; Zhang, Honghua; Zhang, Suojiang
刊名	ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
	2021-02-01
卷号	14 期号:2 页码:672-687
ISSN号	1754-5692
DOI	10.1039/d0ee02263b
英文摘要	The modern ammonia synthesis industry founded by Haber-Bosch in 1913 has successfully altered the history of food production, fed explosive population growth, and laid the foundation of heterogeneous catalysis and chemical engineering as well. However, its reliance on fossil fuels for reactant H-2 production consumes 1-3% of the world's electric energy and 2-5% of the world's natural gas, accompanied by more than 400 million tons of CO2 emission annually. Making use of water as the proton source and electric energy to drive the ammonia synthesis reaction will reduce the fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emission and is thus regarded as a green and sustainable alternative to the conventional Haber-Bosch process. To date, some excellent reviews on electrochemical ammonia synthesis have been published, but most of them were organized according to the type of catalyst. A systematic summary of the performance-improving strategies of the electrocatalyst for ammonia synthesis is rarely reported and therefore highly desirable. In this review, the nitrogen reduction reaction mechanisms and recent theoretical advances are briefly outlined first. Then, strategies for both reactivity and selectivity enhancement of catalysts and catalytic systems are methodically discussed. Last, criteria for the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction, ammonia quantification methods, and an outlook for further research are also concluded. This review aims to provide systematic and concise guidance for the design of highly efficient and selective electrochemical ammonia synthesis systems.
资助项目	Natural Science Foundation of Beijing[2204098] ; Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China[21890760] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[21908228]
WOS研究方向	Chemistry ; Energy & Fuels ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
WOS记录号	WOS:000621101100004
资助机构	Natural Science Foundation of Beijing ; Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ipe.ac.cn/handle/122111/47928]
专题	中国科学院过程工程研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Suojiang
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing Key Lab Ion Liquids Clean Proc, CAS Key Lab Green Proc & Engn, State Key Lab Multiphase Complex Syst,Inst Proc E, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Bing,Ding, Weilu,Zhang, Honghua,et al. Recent progress in electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen: strategies to improve the catalytic activity and selectivity[J]. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,2021,14(2):672-687.
APA	Yang, Bing,Ding, Weilu,Zhang, Honghua,&Zhang, Suojiang.(2021).Recent progress in electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen: strategies to improve the catalytic activity and selectivity.ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,14(2),672-687.
MLA	Yang, Bing,et al."Recent progress in electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen: strategies to improve the catalytic activity and selectivity".ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 14.2(2021):672-687.