FeMoO4 nanorods for efficient ambient electrochemical nitrogen reduction

Jie Wu; ZhongXu Wang; Siwei Li; Siqi Niu; Yuanyuan Zhang; Jing Hu; Jingxiang Zhao; Ping Xu

doi:10.1039/D0CC02217A

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FeMoO₄ nanorods for efficient ambient electrochemical nitrogen reduction†

Jie Wu,^a ZhongXu Wang,^b Siwei Li,

*^a Siqi Niu,^a Yuanyuan Zhang,^a Jing Hu,^a Jingxiang Zhao

*^b and Ping Xu

*^ac

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^a MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
E-mail: pxu@hit.edu.cn, swli@hit.edu.cn

^b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China
E-mail: xjz_hmily@163.com

^c Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power, Shenzhen 518055, China

Abstract

Herein, FeMoO₄ nanorods are explored as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) in 0.1 M Na₂SO₄ solution, with an NH₃ yield rate of 17.51 μg h⁻¹ mg⁻¹ and a high faradaic efficiency (FE) of 10.53%. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that surface Fe atoms are the active centers for NRR via an alternating mechanism.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC02217A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 26 Mar 2020
Accepted: 11 May 2020
First published: 11 May 2020

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Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 6834-6837

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FeMoO₄ nanorods for efficient ambient electrochemical nitrogen reduction

J. Wu, Z. Wang, S. Li, S. Niu, Y. Zhang, J. Hu, J. Zhao and P. Xu, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 6834 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02217A

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