Inspired Nanomaterials from meteorite [tetrataenite(NiFe)] for advanced materials engineering for catalysis technologies and Beyond

To innovate new performance nanomaterials for several engineering fields in order to meet the mankind needs. Researchers from worldwide are focusing on the search of those materials and to create easy ways of designing and synthesizing those expected materials. So, due to the important features of materials coming from the class of rare-earth transition materials, it is known that they possess several applications including catalysis, optoelectronic, X-ray scanning technologies, and so fourth. Furthermore, from an inspiration of a material coming from natural mineral (meteorite), it is demonstrated that tetrataenite (NiFe) is a new technological materials for many applications with a properties similar close to the rare-earth materials. So, in this review article it is shown that many composite catalysts might be designed and synthesized from this row materials with a satisfactory properties. It can be applied for both oxidation and reduction reaction as oxygen evolution reaction (OER), (nitrite, nitrate, nitrogen) transformation to ammonia, and as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion to high value-added products. Therefore, the exploration of tetrataenite would be advantages for considerable engineering technologies and it may solve many issues in fields like catalysis and biomedical engineering areas.