Electrochemical Reduction of Nitric Oxide with 1.7% Solar-to-Ammonia Efficiency Over Nanostructured Core-Shell Catalyst at Low Overpotentials

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Transition metals have been recognized as excellent and efficient catalysts for the electrochemical nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) to value-added chemicals. In this work, a class of core-shell electrocatalysts that utilize nickel nanoparticles in the core and nitrogen-doped porous carbon architecture in the shell (NiNC) for the efficient electroreduction of NO to ammonia (NH3 ) is reported. In Ni@NC, the NC prevents the dissolution of Ni nanoparticles and ensures the long-term stability of the catalyst. The Ni nanoparticles involve in the catalytic reduction of NO to NH3 during electrolysis. As a result, the Ni@NC achieves a faradaic efficiency (FE) of 72.3% at 0.16 VRHE . The full-cell electrolyzer is constructed by coupling Ni@NC as cathode for NORR and RuO2 as an anode for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which delivers a stable performance over 20 cycles at 1.5 V. While integrating this setup with a PV-electrolyzer cell, and it demonstrates an appreciable FE of >50%. Thus, the results exemplify that the core-shell catalyst based electrolyzer is a promising approach for the stable NO to NH3 electroconversion.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

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Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - 9(2022), 29 vom: 17. Okt., Seite e2201410

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sethuram Markandaraj, Sridhar [VerfasserIn]
Muthusamy, Tamilselvan [VerfasserIn]
Shanmugam, Sangaraju [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ammonia
Core-shell nanostructure
Journal Article
Ni@NC
Nitric oxide reduction
PV-electrolyzer cell

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Date Revised 17.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/advs.202201410

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345004531