Promoting Nitrogen Electroreduction to Ammonia with Bismuth Nanocrystals and Potassium Cations in Water

31 January 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

We demonstrate that bismuth exhibits no measurable electrocatalytic activity for the nitrogen reduction reaction to ammonia in aqueous electrolyte solutions, contrary to several recent reports on the highly impressive rates of Bi-catalysed electrosynthesis of NH3 from N2.

Keywords

ammonia
nitrogen reduction reaction
electrocatalysis
bismuth

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