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Yuting Qu1, Boran Yang1, Hongli Wang1
1College of Material Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural Materials, Ministry of Education, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China.
Abstract:
Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia is one potential strategy to remove nitrate and produce ammonia under ambient conditions. The use of carbonaceous materials as metal-free electrocatalysts is crucial for achieving high activity and precise product selectivity. Here, we propose a facile one-step calcination strategy to produce nitrogen-doped carbon (N-C-900-3) electrocatalysts derived from Setaria viridis (SV) for highly efficient nitrate-to-ammonia reduction (NO3RR). Benefiting from the high concentration of defects and the high content of graphitic-N moiety, which play a crucial role in promoting the dissociation of water and the N-H bond formation, the resultant N-C-900-3 displays outstanding electrocatalytic performance with a maximum NH3 yield rate of 6.23 mg h-1 cm-2 and a Faradaic efficiency (FE) of ca. 97.4%.
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