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

31 January 2020, Version 1
Working Paper
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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.

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ammonia
nitrogen reduction reaction
electrocatalysis
bismuth

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Jan 31, 2020 Version 1

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.11768814.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.11768814.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Funding

Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), project DM015
Australian Research Council
CE140100012
ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3931460 [opens in a new tab]

Author’s competing interest statement

No conflict of interest

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