MoC nanocrystals confined in N-doped carbon nanosheets toward highly selective electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction to ammonia

Abstract Electrochemical nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) to produce ammonia ($ NH_{3} $) under ambient conditions is a promising alternative to the energy and carbon-intensive Haber-Bosch approach, but its performance is still improved. Herein, molybdenum carbides (MoC) nanocrystals confined by nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets are first designed as an efficient and durable electrocatalyst for catalyzing the reduction of NO to $ NH_{3} $ with maximal Faradaic efficiency of 89% ± 2% and a yield rate of 1,350 ± 15 µg·$ h^{−1} $·$ cm^{−2} $ at the applied potential of −0.8 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) as well as high stable activity with negligible current density and $ NH_{3} $ yield rate decays over a 30 h continue the test. Moreover, as a proof-of-concept of Zn−NO battery, it achieves a peak power density of 1.8 mW·$ cm^{−2} $ and a large $ NH_{3} $ yield rate of 782 ± 10 µg·$ h^{−1} $·$ cm^{−2} $, which are comparable to the best-reported results. Theoretical calculations reveal that the MoC(111) has a strong electronic interaction with NO molecules and thus lowering the energy barrier of the potential-determining step and suppressing hydrogen evolution kinetics. This work suggests that Mo-based materials are a powerful platform providing great opportunities to explore highly selective and active catalysts for $ NH_{3} $ production..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Nano research - 15(2022), 10 vom: 18. Aug., Seite 8890-8896

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Meng, Ge [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Mengmeng [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Tianran [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shusheng [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Xianyun [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xijun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ammonia electrosynthesis
Green route
High selectivity
Molybdenum carbides (MoC) nanocrystals
Nitric oxide reduction reaction

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© Tsinghua University Press 2022

doi:

10.1007/s12274-022-4747-y

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OLC2132240019