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Wu, Yibo (Wu, Yibo.) | He, Cheng (He, Cheng.) | Zhang, Wenxue (Zhang, Wenxue.)

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Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is a promising method for sustainable production of NH3, which provides an alternative to the traditional Haber-Bosch process. However, the poor Faraday efficiency caused by N≡N triple bond activation and competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) have seriously hindered the application of NRR. In this work, a novel strategy to promote NRR through boron-transition-metal (TM) hybrid double-atom catalysts (HDACs) has been proposed. The excellent catalytic activity of HDACs is attributed to a significant difference of valence electron distribution between boron and TMs, which could better activate N≡N bonds and promote the conversion of NH2 to NH3 compared with boron or metal single-atom catalysts and traditional double-atom catalysts (DACs). Hence, by means of DFT computations, the stability, activity, and selectivity of 29 HDACs are systematically investigated to evaluate their catalytic performance. B-Ti@g-CN and B-Ta@g-CN are screened as excellent nitrogen-fixing catalysts with particularly low limiting potentials of 0.13 and 0.11 V for NRR and rather high potentials of 0.54 and 0.82 V for HER, respectively. This work provides a new idea for the rational design of efficient nitrogen-fixing catalysts and could also be widely used in other catalytic reactions. © 2021 American Chemical Society.

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Ammonia Atoms Boron Catalysis Catalyst activity Catalyst selectivity Chemical bonds Density functional theory Design for testability Electrocatalysts Nitrogen Nitrogen fixation Phosphorus Reduction Surface reactions Transition metals

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  • [ 1 ] [Wu, Yibo]State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'An Jiaotong University, Xi'an; 710049, China
  • [ 2 ] [He, Cheng]State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'An Jiaotong University, Xi'an; 710049, China
  • [ 3 ] [Zhang, Wenxue]School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chang'An University, Xi'an; 710064, China

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ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

ISSN: 1944-8244

Year: 2021

Issue: 40

Volume: 13

Page: 47520-47529

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JCR@2020

ESI Discipline: MATERIALS SCIENCE;

ESI HC Threshold:36

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 2

SCOPUS Cited Count: 100

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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30 Days PV: 14

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