Recent progress of photocatalysts based on tungsten and related metals for nitrogen reduction to ammonia.

ABSTRACT: Photocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) to ammonia holds a great promise for substituting the traditional energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, which entails sunlight as an inexhaustible resource and water as a hydrogen source under mild conditions. Remarkable progress has been achieved regarding the activation and solar conversion of N₂ to NH₃ with the rapid development of emerging photocatalysts, but it still suffers from low efficiency. A comprehensive review on photocatalysts covering tungsten and related metals as well as their broad ranges of alloys and compounds is lacking. This article aims to summarize recent advances in this regard, focusing on the strategies to enhance the photocatalytic performance of tungsten and related metal semiconductors for

SUBMITTER: Hui X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9441816 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature