{"title":"Recent advances in metal-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis towards commercialization","authors":"Craig Burdis , Suzanne Zamany Andersen , Jesús Barrio , Magda Titirici , Ifan E.L. Stephens , Mattia Saccoccio","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100964","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current commercial ammonia production occurs in large, centralized facilities <em>via</em> the Haber–Bosch process, emitting a significant portion of our global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. In a world of increasing decentralized renewable energy production, there is therefore an urgent need to develop sustainable and decentralized technologies for ammonia synthesis, which can abate these emissions and take advantage of the decentralized nature of renewables: the electrochemical N<sub>2</sub> reduction field offers a promising alternative. Herein, only electrochemical metal-mediated ammonia synthesis processes have been proven across several laboratories and research groups to work at near-ambient pressure and temperature. This review will provide an overview of recent advances in the last two years laying a foundation for future industrial applications of the metal-mediated ammonia synthesis process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100964"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000853/pdfft?md5=2dbec1550df203b873f51a72d318462e&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000853-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000853","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Current commercial ammonia production occurs in large, centralized facilities via the Haber–Bosch process, emitting a significant portion of our global CO2 emissions. In a world of increasing decentralized renewable energy production, there is therefore an urgent need to develop sustainable and decentralized technologies for ammonia synthesis, which can abate these emissions and take advantage of the decentralized nature of renewables: the electrochemical N2 reduction field offers a promising alternative. Herein, only electrochemical metal-mediated ammonia synthesis processes have been proven across several laboratories and research groups to work at near-ambient pressure and temperature. This review will provide an overview of recent advances in the last two years laying a foundation for future industrial applications of the metal-mediated ammonia synthesis process.
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The Current Opinion journals address the challenge specialists face in keeping up with the expanding information in their fields. In Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, experts present views on recent advances in a clear and readable form. The journal also provides evaluations of the most noteworthy papers, annotated by experts, from the extensive pool of original publications in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.