Abstract
An electrochemical approach for ammonia production is successfully developed by coupling the anodic dinitrogen oxidation reaction (NOR) and cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) within a well-designed membraneless flow electrolyzer. The obtained reactor shows the preferential yield of ammonia over nitrogen oxides on the vanadium nitride catalyst surface. At an applied oxidation potential of 2.25V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (vsRHE), a promoted ammonia production rate and Faradaic efficiency (FE) were obtained with 9.9mmol g-1 h-1 (0.029mmol cm-2 h-1) and 4.8%, respectively. Besides, the negative affection of ammonia contamination is efficiently alleviated. Density functional theory calculations revealed that the thermodynamic energy needed to produce ammonia (-0.63eV) is far lower than that of producing nitrogen oxide (0.96eV) from hydrogenated nitrogen oxides [∗N2OH] splitting, confirming the coupling of NOR and HER.
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