Iron partially occupying sulfur vacancies in WS2 boosts electrochemical nitrogen fixation at low potentials

Jiuxiao Sun; Xue Li; Tiantian Xiong; Ying Ling; Zehui Yang

doi:10.1039/D2CC01588A

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Iron partially occupying sulfur vacancies in WS₂ boosts electrochemical nitrogen fixation at low potentials†

Jiuxiao Sun,‡^a Xue Li,‡^a Tiantian Xiong,^b Ying Ling*^b and Zehui Yang

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^a State Key Laboratory for Hubei New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, 430200 Wuhan, P. R. China

^b Sustainable Energy Laboratory, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, 388 Lumo RD, Wuhan, P. R. China
E-mail: lingy3991@gmail.com, yeungzehui@gmail.com

^c Zhejiang Institute, China University of Geosciences, Hangzhou, P. R. China

Abstract

Metallic Fe nanoparticles partially occupy the sulfur vacancies at edge sites of WS₂ leading to 4-fold higher NRR performance due to the boosted p–d hybridization between Fe and N atoms.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC01588A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 19 Mar 2022
Accepted: 27 May 2022
First published: 28 May 2022

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Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 7261-7264

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Iron partially occupying sulfur vacancies in WS₂ boosts electrochemical nitrogen fixation at low potentials

J. Sun, X. Li, T. Xiong, Y. Ling and Z. Yang, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 7261 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC01588A

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