Across the Board: Ping Chen

In this series the board members of ChemSusChem discuss recent research articles that they consider exceptional quality and importance for sustainability. This entry features Prof. Ping Chen, who discusses recent works in nitrogen chemistry, highlighting a path toward minimizing the use of fossil fuels by developing more efficient heterogeneous, homogeneous, photo- and electrocatalytic processes, or by adapting the enzymatic processes underlying the natural nitrogen cycle. She focuses in particular on NH₃ , which possesses great potential as a carbon-neutral source of energy, provided fundamental breakthroughs in catalysis, materials science, and physics are achieved.