Abstract
Haber-Bosch process produces ammonia to provide food for over 5 billion people; however, it is currently required to be produced without the use of fossil fuels to reduce global CO2 emissions by 3% or more. It is indispensable to devise heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of ammonia below 100-150 °C to minimize the energy consumption of the process. In this paper, we report metallic iron particles with an electron-donating material as a catalyst for ammonia synthesis. Metallic iron particles combined with a mixture of BaO and BaH2 species in an appropriate manner could catalyze ammonia synthesis even at 100 °C. The iron catalyst revealed that iron can exhibit a high turnover frequency (∼12 s-1), which is over an order of magnitude higher than those of other transition metals used in highly active catalysts for ammonia synthesis. This can be attributed to the intrinsic nature of iron to desorb adsorbed hydrogen atoms as hydrogen molecules at low temperatures.
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