• 文献标题:   Enhanced nitrogen electroreduction performance by the reorganization of local coordination environment of supported single atom on N(O)-dual-doped graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   BAI ZQ, ZHANG WH, LIU YF
  • 作者关键词:   nitrogen reduction reaction, single atom catalysi, local structure reorganization, doped graphene, electroreduction
  • 出版物名称:   NANO RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1998-0124 EI 1998-0000
  • 通讯作者地址:  
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12274-023-5734-7 EA MAY 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Developing stable and efficient catalysts for the electroreduction of nitrogen remains a huge challenge and single atom catalysts (SACs) are expected to achieve relatively high ammonia selectivity at low applied potential. Based on density functional theory calculations, the potential application of 27 single transition metal (TM = Sc-Zn, Y-Ag, Hf-Au) atoms supported by N(O)-dualdoped graphene (TM-O2N2/G) for the electroreduction of nitrogen is intensively investigated. At low nitrogen coverage, W(Mo, Nb, Ta)-O2N2/G are predicted to yield low ammonia selectivity (< 13%) at limiting-potential of -0.58, -0.53, -0.56, and -0.76 V starting from adsorbed nitrogen with side-on mode, respectively. With the increasing N-2 coverage, the TM-O2N2/G is reconstructed as TM-(N-2)(2)N-2/graphene. The electroreduction of nitrogen proceeds from end-on adsorbed nitrogen molecule with high ammonia selectivity, and the limiting-potentials are theoretically predicted as -0.20, -0.40, -0.29, and -0.21 V on W(Mo, Nb, Ta)-(N2)2N(2)/G, respectively. It is suggested that utilizing the reorganization of local coordination environments of SACs by high coverage of reactant molecules under reaction condition can not only enhance the activity at lower limiting-potential but also improve the ammonia selectivity.