Nanoporous Palladium Hydride for Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 59(9): 3511-3516, 2020 Feb 24.
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ABSTRACT
The electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is an alternative eco-friendly strategy for sustainable N2 fixation with renewable energy. However, NRR suffers from sluggish kinetics owing to difficult N2 adsorption and N≡N cleavage. Now, nanoporous palladium hydride is reported as electrocatalyst for electrochemical N2 reduction under ambient conditions, achieving a high ammonia yield rate of 20.4â
µg h-1 mg-1 with a Faradaic efficiency of 43.6 % at low overpotential of 150â
mV. Isotopic hydrogen labeling studies suggest the involvement of lattice hydrogen atoms in the hydride as active hydrogen source. Inâ
situ Raman analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations further reveal the reduction of energy barrier for the rate-limiting *N2 H formation step. The unique protonation mode of palladium hydride would provide a new insight on designing efficient and robust electrocatalysts for nitrogen fixation.
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
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