Design Criteria for Active and Selective Catalysts in the Nitrogen Oxidation Reaction.

ABSTRACT: The direct conversion of dinitrogen to nitrate is a dream reaction to combine the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes as well as steam reforming using electrochemistry in a single process. Regrettably, the corresponding nitrogen oxidation (NOR) reaction is hampered by a selectivity problem, since the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is both thermodynamically and kinetically favored in the same potential range. This opens the search for the identification of active and selective NOR catalysts to enable nitrate production under anodic reaction conditions. While theoretical considerations using the computational hydrogen electrode approach have helped in identifying potential material motifs for electrocatalytic reactions over the last decades, the inherent complexity of the NOR, which consists

SUBMITTER: Usama M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758373 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature