• 文献标题:   Transition Metal-dinitrogen Complex Embedded Graphene for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG YL, LIU JD, WEI ZX, WANG SY, MA JM
  • 作者关键词:   nitrogen reduction reaction, transition metal, density functional theory, graphene, catalytic activity
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMCATCHEM
  • ISSN:   1867-3880 EI 1867-3899
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hunan Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1002/cctc.201900536
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Conversion of nitrogen to ammonia (NH3) is one of the most important issue in the modern chemical industry. Transition metals (TM) have the special unoccupied and occupied d orbitals to accept the electrons from and backdonate to N-2, which is crucial in effective nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). Herein, we propose TMN4 (TM=Fe, Co, Mo, W, Ru, Rh) embedded graphene as the catalysts for NRR by using the density functional theory calculations. Our results revealed that MoN4 embedded graphene exhibited outstanding catalytic activity for ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions along with small reaction energy barrier of 0.67 eV, as well as against hydrogen evolution reaction. These findings provide a potential paradigm for NRR.