{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhao Z"],"funding":["Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality","State Key Laboratory of Organic–Inorganic Composites","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Beijing University of Chemical Technology"],"pagination":["100190"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8693264"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["3(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Demand for ammonia continues to increase to sustain the growing global population. The direct electrochemical N<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (NRR) powered by renewable electricity offers a promising carbon-neutral and sustainable strategy for manufacturing NH<sub>3</sub>, yet achieving this remains a grand challenge. Here, we report a synergistic strategy to promote ambient NRR for ammonia production by tuning the Te vacancies (V<sub>Te</sub>) and surface hydrophobicity of two-dimensional TaTe<sub>2</sub> nanosheets. Remarkable NH<sub>3</sub> faradic efficiency of up to 32.2% is attained at a mild overpotential, which is largely maintained even after 100 h of consecutive electrolysis. Isotopic labeling validates that the N atoms of formed NH<sub>4</sub> <sup>+</sup> originate from N<sub>"],"journal":["Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.))"],"pubmed_title":["Engineering vacancy and hydrophobicity of two-dimensional TaTe<sub>2</sub> for efficient and stable electrocatalytic N<sub>2</sub> reduction."],"pmcid":["PMC8693264"],"funding_grant_id":["2192039","21972010","NRF-2016M3D1A1021147","XK180301","201901001"],"pubmed_authors":["Choi C","Lv Z","Park J","Robertson AW","Benedict Lo TW","Zhang H","Jung Y","Hui X","Zhao Z","Sun Z","Hong S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Engineering vacancy and hydrophobicity of two-dimensional TaTe<sub>2</sub> for efficient and stable electrocatalytic N<sub>2</sub> reduction.","description":"Demand for ammonia continues to increase to sustain the growing global population. The direct electrochemical N<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (NRR) powered by renewable electricity offers a promising carbon-neutral and sustainable strategy for manufacturing NH<sub>3</sub>, yet achieving this remains a grand challenge. Here, we report a synergistic strategy to promote ambient NRR for ammonia production by tuning the Te vacancies (V<sub>Te</sub>) and surface hydrophobicity of two-dimensional TaTe<sub>2</sub> nanosheets. Remarkable NH<sub>3</sub> faradic efficiency of up to 32.2% is attained at a mild overpotential, which is largely maintained even after 100 h of consecutive electrolysis. Isotopic labeling validates that the N atoms of formed NH<sub>4</sub> <sup>+</sup> originate from N<sub>","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Jan","modification":"2025-04-18T22:14:20.442Z","creation":"2022-02-11T14:48:38.642Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8693264","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34984409"],"doi":["10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100190"]}}