Regulating charge distribution of Cu3PdN nanocrystals for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia

Kai Yao; Zhaobin Fang; Jieyue Wang; Wenhai Wang; Mingyue Wang; Weijie Yan; Mingfu Ye; Binbin Jiang; Konglin Wu; Xianwen Wei

doi:10.1039/D3CC02791K

Regulating charge distribution of Cu₃PdN nanocrystals for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia†

Kai Yao,^a Zhaobin Fang,^a Jieyue Wang,^a Wenhai Wang,^a Mingyue Wang,^a Weijie Yan,^a Mingfu Ye,^ad Binbin Jiang,*^c Konglin Wu

*^abd and Xianwen Wei

*^a

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^a Engineering Research Center of Biofilm Water Purification and Utilization Technology of Ministry of Education, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243032, China
E-mail: klwuchem@ahut.edu.cn, xwwei@ahut.edu.cn

^b Anhui Laboratory of Molecule-Based Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China
E-mail: konglin@mail.ahnu.edu.cn

^c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246001, China
E-mail: bbjiang0726@126.com

^d Institute of Clean Energy and Advanced Nanocatalysis (iClean), Anhui International Joint Research Center for Green Manufacturing and Biotechnology of Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243032, China

Abstract

As-synthesized Cu₃PdN nanocrystals displayed high faradaic efficiency and selectivity for nitrate-to-ammonia conversion. The excellent performances can be attributed to the charge redistribution in Cu₃PdN as a result of modulations of the electronic structures of Pd and Cu atoms, which altered the adsorption activation energy of the intermediates during the nitrate reduction reaction process.

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Regulating charge distribution of Cu₃PdN nanocrystals for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia†

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