Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Highly efficient decomposition of ammonia using high-entropy alloy catalysts

  • Pengfei Xie,
  • Yonggang Yao,
  • Zhennan Huang,
  • Zhenyu Liu,
  • Junlei Zhang,
  • Tangyuan Li,
  • Guofeng Wang,
  • Reza Shahbazian-Yassar,
  • Liangbing Hu,
  • Chao Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11848-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Alloys are important materials for catalysis but are usually limited by miscibility gaps present in their phase diagrams. Here the authors break this limitation by developing high-entropy alloy catalysts made of five earth-abundant elements and demonstrate great catalytic enhancements for ammonia decomposition.