{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wang Z"],"funding":["Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality","Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Bavarian Program Solar Technologies Go Hybrid","Center for NanoScience"],"pagination":["e202511398"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12377428"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["64(35)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) for ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) synthesis represents a sustainable strategy that simultaneously realizes the nitrogen cycle and resource integration. The key issue hindering the NORR efficiency is accelerating proton (*H) transfer to facilitate NO hydrogenation while inhibiting the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we demonstrate an interface-engineered sulfur-mediated Cu@Co electrocatalyst (S-Cu@Co/C) that boosts NORR performance through dual modulation of electronic structure and proton transfer on active sites. A comprehensive program of experimental and theoretical calculations was employed to discover that sulfur incorporation induces electron redistribution in the Cu-Co interface, creating electron-rich sulfur and electron-deficient metals. This electronic configuration synergistically enhances NO adsorption on Cu sites and promotes water dissociation on Co sites. More critically, sulfur could direct the rapid transfer of *H from Co to Cu sites, thereby accelerating the NO hydrogenation and suppressing HER. Consequently, S-Cu@Co/C achieves an NH<sub>3</sub> yield rate of 655.3 µmol h<sup>-1</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup> in a flow cell and a Faradaic efficiency of 92.4% in an H-cell. Remarkably, the catalyst could maintain continuous electrolysis tests and steady NH<sub>3</sub> yield up to 100 h. This work provides innovative insights into the fabrication of efficient electrocatalysts via heteroatom-mediated interfacial engineering strategies."],"journal":["Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)"],"pubmed_title":["Sulfur Mediated Interfacial Proton-Directed Transfer Boosts Electrocatalytic Nitric Oxide Reduction to Ammonia over Dual-Site Catalysts."],"pmcid":["PMC12377428"],"funding_grant_id":["22201102","24230711600","EXC 2089/1-390776260","23230713700","22436003","EXC 2089/1–390776260","22125604"],"pubmed_authors":["Li X","Cheng D","Zhang D","Zhu L","Jiang X","Xie M","Shen Y","Cortes E","Wang Z","Qu W","Han D","Duan H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Sulfur Mediated Interfacial Proton-Directed Transfer Boosts Electrocatalytic Nitric Oxide Reduction to Ammonia over Dual-Site Catalysts.","description":"Electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) for ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) synthesis represents a sustainable strategy that simultaneously realizes the nitrogen cycle and resource integration. The key issue hindering the NORR efficiency is accelerating proton (*H) transfer to facilitate NO hydrogenation while inhibiting the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we demonstrate an interface-engineered sulfur-mediated Cu@Co electrocatalyst (S-Cu@Co/C) that boosts NORR performance through dual modulation of electronic structure and proton transfer on active sites. A comprehensive program of experimental and theoretical calculations was employed to discover that sulfur incorporation induces electron redistribution in the Cu-Co interface, creating electron-rich sulfur and electron-deficient metals. This electronic configuration synergistically enhances NO adsorption on Cu sites and promotes water dissociation on Co sites. More critically, sulfur could direct the rapid transfer of *H from Co to Cu sites, thereby accelerating the NO hydrogenation and suppressing HER. Consequently, S-Cu@Co/C achieves an NH<sub>3</sub> yield rate of 655.3 µmol h<sup>-1</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup> in a flow cell and a Faradaic efficiency of 92.4% in an H-cell. Remarkably, the catalyst could maintain continuous electrolysis tests and steady NH<sub>3</sub> yield up to 100 h. This work provides innovative insights into the fabrication of efficient electrocatalysts via heteroatom-mediated interfacial engineering strategies.","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Aug","modification":"2026-05-09T17:49:25.48Z","creation":"2026-04-08T01:08:32.462Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12377428","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40591728"],"doi":["10.1002/anie.202511398"]}}