Favoring the unfavored: Selective electrochemical nitrogen fixation using a reticular chemistry approach

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Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis—The Selectivity Challenge

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Light-driven dinitrogen reduction catalyzed by a CdS:nitrogenase MoFe protein biohybrid

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Ammonia Electrosynthesis with High Selectivity under Ambient Conditions via a Li+ Incorporation Strategy

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Progress in the Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia

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Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Ammonia at Room Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure from Water and Nitrogen on a Carbon‐Nanotube‐Based Electrocatalyst

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Electro-synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen at ambient temperature and pressure in ionic liquids

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Immobilization of Ultrafine Metal Nanoparticles to High-Surface-Area Materials and Their Catalytic Applications

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New recipe produces ammonia from air, water, and sunlight

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Nanostructured photoelectrochemical solar cell for nitrogen reduction using plasmon-enhanced black silicon

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Selective Dinitrogen Conversion to Ammonia Using Water and Visible Light through Plasmon‐induced Charge Separation

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Lithium-mediated electrochemical reduction of high pressure N2 to NH3

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Ambient nitrogen reduction cycle using a hybrid inorganic–biological system

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DFT based study of transition metal nano-clusters for electrochemical NH3 production

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Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia: A Low Pressure, Low Temperature Approach

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Electrochemical ammonia synthesis from steam and nitrogen using proton conducting yttrium doped barium zirconate electrolyte with silver, platinum, and lanthanum strontium cobalt ferrite electrocatalyst

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Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide to Chemical Fuels: Challenges and Opportunities for a Solar Fuel Device

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The effect of Ag as a promoter for Ru/CeO2 catalysts in ammonia synthesis

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Tackling the Activity and Selectivity Challenges of Electrocatalysts toward the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction via Atomically Dispersed Biatom Catalysts

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Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis

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Molybdenum Carbide Nanodots Enable Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions

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Efficient Electrocatalytic N2 Fixation with MXene under Ambient Conditions

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Defect engineering in earth-abundant electrocatalysts for CO2 and N2 reduction

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