Electrocatalytic nitrate to ammonia conversion is a key reaction for energy and environmental sustainability. This reaction involves complex multi electron and proton transfer steps, and is impeded by the lack of catalyst for promoting both reactivity and ammonia selectivity. Here, we demonstrate active motifs based on the Chevrel phase CoMoS exhibit an enzyme-like high turnover frequency of ∼95.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe anode-free battery architecture has recently emerged as a promising platform for lithium and sodium metal batteries as it not only offers the highest possible energy density, but also eliminates the need for handling hazardous metal electrodes during cell manufacturing. However, such batteries usually suffer from much faster capacity decay and are much more sensitive to even trace levels of irreversible side reactions on the anode, especially for the more reactive Na metal. This work systematically investigates electrochemical interfaces for Na plating and stripping and describes the use of the Zn surface to develop nearly fully reversible Na anodes with 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChaplains must document their ministry of care in electronic health records that primarily focus on the physical dimension of care. Creating chaplain documentation that reflects the spiritual dimension of care requires chaplains to participate in the screen design. This article describes how chaplain documentation was designed and refined using psychometric methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectrochemical hydrogenation of N under ambient conditions is attractive for sustainable and distributable NH production but is limited by the lack of selective electrocatalysts. Herein, we describe active site motifs based on the Chevrel phase chalcogenide FeMoS that exhibit intrinsic activities for converting N to NH in aqueous electrolytes. Despite having a very low specific surface area of ∼2 m/g, this catalyst exhibited a Faradaic efficiency of 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe low-cost hydrogen production from water electrolysis is crucial to the deployment of sustainable hydrogen economy but is currently constrained by the lack of active and robust electrocatalysts from earth-abundant materials. We describe here an unconventional heterostructure composed of strongly coupled Ni-deficient LiNiO nanoclusters and polycrystalline Ni nanocrystals and its exceptional activities toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in aqueous electrolytes. The presence of lattice oxygen species with strong Brønsted basicity is a significant feature in such heterostructure, which spontaneously split water molecules for accelerated Volmer H-OH dissociation in neutral and alkaline HER.
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