Polyvalent MnOx/C Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

doi:10.11944/j.issn.1000-0518.2020.09.200085

Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 2020, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9): 1048-1055.DOI: 10.11944/j.issn.1000-0518.2020.09.200085

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Polyvalent MnO_x/C Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

BI Yipiao^a,b, GONG Xue^a, YANG Fa^a,b, RUAN Mingbo^a, SONG Ping^a, XU Weilin^a,b*

^aAdvanced Power Laboratory,Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130022,China;
^bUniversity of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China

Received:2020-03-22 Published:2020-09-01 Online:2020-09-09
Contact: XU Weilin, professor; Tel:0431-85262848; E-mail:weilinxu@ciac.ac.cn; Research Interests:electrocatalysis
Supported by:
Supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(No.21925205), the Guangdong Joint Fund(No.U1601211), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21733004,No.21633008,No.2017YFE9127900, No.21721003,No.2018YFB1502302,No.21433003)

Abstract

Abstract: NH₃ plays an important role in human production and life, but the main way to produce NH₃ is still the high energy consumption and high pollution Haber-Bosch process. Electrocatalytic N₂ reduction reaction (ENRR) is considered to be an effective alternative method, however highly efficient catalyst is still a challenging as a result of high bond energy of NN. Here, we report an electrocatalyst of polyvalent MnO_x/C which is designed via simple redox reaction for highly efficient production of ammonia (with yield up to 7.8 μg_NH₃/(h·mg_cat) and Faradic efficiency (FE) up to 9.2%) from nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). The high NRR performance of polyvalent MnO_x/C mainly originates from a synergistic effect among different valence states (Mn²⁺, Mn³⁺, Mn⁴⁺) of Mn for NRR.

Key words: ammonia synthesis, electrocatalysis, transition metal oxide, synergistic effect

BI Yipiao, GONG Xue, YANG Fa, RUAN Mingbo, SONG Ping, XU Weilin. Polyvalent MnO_x/C Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Nitrogen Reduction Reaction[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, 2020, 37(9): 1048-1055.

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