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Phosphate-functionalized copper oxide promotes the ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrite waste

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Facile Synthesis of a Cu3Mo2O9 Nanosheet Array for Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrite to Ammonia in Neutral Solution

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Fast Seawater Desalination Driven by Efficient Nitrate Reduction via Bimetallic Iron/Zinc Polyphthalocyanine Frameworks

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Anion-Doped Perovskite Oxygen-Permeable Membranes Fabricated via an Improved One-Step Thermal Processing Approach

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Enhanced electrochemical nitrate reduction with a novel (Mn,Fe)2O3/Co3S4 electrocatalyst for sustainable ammonia production

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A first-Principles and machine learning study of electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia on single-atom covalent organic frameworks

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Fast Seawater Desalination Driven by Efficient Nitrate Reduction via Bimetallic Iron/Zinc Polyphthalocyanine Frameworks

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Chelation driven interface engineering of Cu-Zn/ZrO2 catalysts for low barrier CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

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Perovskite oxide catalysts: Molecular-level design, structure–activity relationships, and reaction mechanisms

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Electrocatalytic conversion of nitrate to ammonia on the oxygen vacancy engineering of zinc oxide for nitrogen recovery from nitrate-polluted surface water

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Zeolitic imidazolate framework derived Fe-Cu carbonaceous catalyst for efficient electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia

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Developing energy-efficient nitrate-to-ammonia flow cells with bifunctional NiFeW-oxide thin-film electrodes made by magnetron sputtering technique

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Ionomer-Regulated Cu/Co Tandem Catalysis for Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate-to-Ammonia Conversion

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Oxygen vacancy-engineered Ti₃C₂Tₓ MXenes for photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceutical residues in aqueous systems: Molecular mechanisms and future directions

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Nanointerfacial Engineering of a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst for the Selective Electrogeneration of Ammonia from Nitrate Pollution

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Recent Progress and Perspectives on Transition Metal-Based Electrocatalysts for Efficient Nitrate Reduction

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Electron-deficient CoO induced charge redistribution on CuCoO-NC nanohybrid for electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia

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Synergistic effects of heterogeneous interfaces and induced oxygen vacancies enhance the CuO/In2O3 performance in catalytic urea synthesis

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A critical review on the role of structural defects in electrochemical nitrate reduction catalysts: From mechanisms to formation strategies

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Research progress in electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia by copper-based materials

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Copper–Nickel Oxide Nanosheets with Atomic Thickness for High‐Efficiency Sulfur Ion Electrooxidation Assisted Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia

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Adv Funct Materials, 2024, 34
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