The nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) has attracted great interest during recent years since it offers a sustainable replacement of traditional Haber-Bosch process to acquire useful ammonia productions. However, the NRR is still restricted by low Faradaic efficiency and NH<sub>3</sub> yield, which is due to the chemical inertness of N-related groups for efficient adsorption/activation on the electrocatalysts. Defect chemistry can be regarded as an efficient strategy, including of intrinsic defect of the carbon, anion vacancy, cation vacancy, lattice defect, and even heteroatom-doping strategy, to enhance both of the charge density near the interface between electrocatalyst and N-related groups and electron transfer ability in the surface structure.

When defect chemistry meets nitrogen reduction reactions

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