Electrochemical nitrogen fixation and utilization: theories, advanced catalyst materials and system design

Nitrogen is a fundamental constituent for all living creatures on the Earth and modern industrial society. The current nitrogen industry is largely powered by fossil fuels with huge energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission, and nitrogen pollution in surface water bodies induced by the indiscriminate discharge of industrial and domestic wastewater has become a worldwide environmental concern. Electrochemical techniques for nitrogen fixation and transformation under mild conditions are promising approaches to meet the challenge of efficiently managing and balancing the nitrogen cycle, where the rational design of advanced electrocatalysts from both structural and compositional aspects down to the nanoscale…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 51825201
• CS
  Changjiang Scholar Program of Chinese Ministry of Education
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2017YFA0206701