Electrochemical Generation of Catalytically Active Edge Sites in C N-Type Carbon Materials for Artificial Nitrogen Fixation.

The electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) to ammonia (NH ) is a potentially carbon-neutral and decentralized supplement to the established Haber-Bosch process. Catalytic activation of the highly stable dinitrogen molecules remains a great challenge. Especially metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts do not often reach the desired selectivity and ammonia production rates due to their low concentration of NRR active sites and possible instability of heteroatoms under electrochemical potential, which can even contribute to false positive results.

A Selective Copper Based Oxygen Reduction Catalyst for the Electrochemical Synthesis of HO at Neutral pH.

HO is a bulk chemical used as "green" alternative in a variety of applications, but has an energy and waste intensive production method. The electrochemical O reduction to HO is viable alternative with examples of the direct production of up to 20% HO solutions. In that respect, we found that the dinuclear complex Cu(btmpa) (6,6'-bis[[bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amino]methyl]-2,2'-bipyridine) reduces O to HO with a selectivity up to 90 % according to single linear sweep rotating ring disk electrode measurements.

On the Homogeneity of a Cobalt-Based Water Oxidation Catalyst.

The homogeneity of molecular Co-based water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) has been a subject of debate over the last 10 years as assumed various homogeneous Co-based WOCs were found to actually form CoO under operating conditions. The homogeneity of the Co(H) (H = ,-bis(2,2'-bipyrid-6-yl)amine) system was investigated with cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The obtained experimental results were compared with heterogeneous CoO .