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Focused Ion Beam Fabrication of LiPON-based Solid-state Lithium-ion Nanobatteries for In Situ Testing
Published on: March 7, 2018
Fast and exothermic reaction of CO2 and Li3N into C-N-containing solid materials
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295, United States. yunhangh@mtu.edu
Abstract:
The conversion of CO(2) to valuable compounds, which is considered as an effective approach to solve the global warming, represents a great challenge due to the high stability and low reactivity of CO(2). Herein, thermodynamic calculations predicted the feasibility of exothermic reactions between CO(2) and Li(3)N into two important solid materials-carbon nitride and lithium cyanamide. Furthermore, the feasibility was confirmed by experiments, namely, the fast reaction between CO(2) and Li(3)N produced crystal lithium cyanamide and amorphous carbon nitrides. This provides a novel process to control CO(2) emissions.
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