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Back Cover: An Amorphous Noble‐Metal‐Free Electrocatalyst that Enables Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 21/2018)
Author(s) -
Lv Chade,
Yan Chunshuang,
Chen Gang,
Ding Yu,
Sun Jingxue,
Zhou Yansong,
Yu Guihua
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201803952
Subject(s) - noble metal , catalysis , electrocatalyst , faraday efficiency , amorphous solid , nitrogen , materials science , chemistry , metal , inorganic chemistry , chemical engineering , electrode , electrochemistry , metallurgy , organic chemistry , engineering
The electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) emerges as an alternative approach for N 2 fixation at ambient conditions. Although many noble‐metal‐based catalysts have been explored, there is still a lack of high‐efficiency noble‐metal‐free catalysts. In their Communication on page 6073 ff., G. Yu, G. Chen et al. report an amorphous noble‐metal‐free hybrid catalyst with high NH 3 yield and Faradaic efficiency. Such a hybrid catalyst enables effective N 2 adsorption and charge transfer for the NRR process.