Guanqiao Yu, Zilu Guo, Yuefei Li, Shan Huang and Jiayuan Li
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024,14, 4466-4470
DOI:
10.1039/D4CY00799A,
Communication
We used phytate coordination on a Cu surface to overcome the kinetic bottleneck for proton adsorption/activation through a concerted proton-coupled electron transfer pathway; this leads to one order of magnitude activity enhancement for nitrate-to-ammonia electrocatalysis.