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In situ construction of MoO2/In2O3 heterostructures to accelerate the reaction kinetics for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction

Yuhang Cheng,a   Jianlong Chen,a   Hangning Liu,a   Qi Wang,a   Manting Tang,a   Xuyun Guo,b   Valeria Nicolosi, ORCID logo b   Linghao Su ORCID logo *a  and  Jie Wang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Qingdao Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Recycling Economy Materials, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, P. R. China
E-mail: wangjie@qau.edu.cn, slh99@163.com

b School of Chemistry, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) and Advanced Materials Bio-Engineering Research Centre (AMBER), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02PN40, Ireland

Abstract

Electrochemical nitrogen reduction to NH3 offers a sustainable alternative to the energy-intensive Haber–Bosch process, but suffers from sluggish kinetics. Herein, we report MoO2/In2O3 heterostructured nanorods achieving a high NH3 yield (23.42 µg h−1 cm−2) and faradaic efficiency (35.59%), with 3.8-fold enhanced reaction kinetics versus bare In2O3.

Graphical abstract: In situ construction of MoO2/In2O3 heterostructures to accelerate the reaction kinetics for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC02345B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Apr 2026
Accepted
09 Jun 2026
First published
09 Jun 2026

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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In situ construction of MoO2/In2O3 heterostructures to accelerate the reaction kinetics for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction

Y. Cheng, J. Chen, H. Liu, Q. Wang, M. Tang, X. Guo, V. Nicolosi, L. Su and J. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC02345B

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