Favoring the unfavored: Selective electrochemical nitrogen fixation using a reticular chemistry approach

Science Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Lee, Hiang Kwee ^a,b   Koh, Charlynn Sher Lin ^a   Lee, Yih Hong ^a   Liu, Chong ^a,d   Phang, In Yee ^b   Han, Xuemei ^a   Tsung, Chia Kuang ^c   Ling, Xing Yi ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; NITROGEN; ORGANOMETALLICS;

AMMONIA PRODUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL FEATURES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HABER-BOSCH PROCESS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; NITROGEN REDUCTION; SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

EID: 85044150780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3208     Document Type: Article

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