Thanks to the development of the Haber-Bosch process, ammonia is one of the most widely produced inorganic compounds in the world and an important component of fertilizers. However, only a small portion of the nitrogen in ammonia is converted to food protein; most of it is being lost to the environment, resulting in high concentrations of nitrate in aqueous ecosystems. Nitrate capture, and subsequent electrochemical nitrate reduction to useful chemicals such as ammonia, present one potential pathway to alleviating the environmental impact of excess nitrate. In this talk, I will describe our recent work on understanding the mechanism of Co-based electrocatalysts, focusing on how various structural and electronic features (e.g., ligand non-innocence, hydrogen bonding) impact the mechanism of the electrocatalytic nitrate reduction.

Designing catalysts for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction: A computational perspective

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