Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Coupling nitrate capture with ammonia production through bifunctional redox-electrodes

  • Kwiyong Kim,
  • Alexandra Zagalskaya,
  • Jing Lian Ng,
  • Jaeyoung Hong,
  • Vitaly Alexandrov,
  • Tuan Anh Pham,
  • Xiao Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36318-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Coupling nitrate capture with conversion to ammonium is attractive because it combines pollutant remediation and chemical production. Here, the authors design a bifunctional redox-electrode to achieve the reactive separation of nitrate to ammonium in a single electrochemical cell.