Oxygen vacancy-engineered Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> nanocubes <i>via</i> a task-specific ionic liquid for electrocatalytic N<sub>2</sub> fixation

Chenyun Zhang, Shuai Liu, Tingting Chen, Zhonghao Li, Jingcheng Hao

Chemical Communications · 2019 · 86 citations · 22 references

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Abstract

A task-specific ionic liquid strategy was, for the first time, proposed for designing oxygen vacancy-rich α-Fe2O3 nanocubes toward electrocatalytic N2 fixation to NH3 under ambient conditions, offering a NH3 formation rate of 32.13 μg h-1 mgcat-1 with a faradaic efficiency of 6.63% at -0.3 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode.

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