Ammonia (NH 3 ) is an activated nitrogen building block for the manufacture of modern fertilizers, plastics, fibers, explosives, etc. ; however, its production is limited to the traditional Haber–Bosch process.
A VN nanowire array on carbon cloth (VN/CC) as a high-performance catalyst for the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) affords high ammonia yield (2.48 × 10 −10 mol −1 s −1 cm −2 ) and faradaic efficiency (3.58%) at −0.3 V versus RHE in 0.1 M HCl.
1 November 2014 in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry