Electrospun TiC/C nanofibers for ambient electrocatalytic N<sub>2</sub> reduction

Guangsen Yu, Haoran Guo, Wenhan Kong, Ting Wang, Yonglan Luo, Xifeng Shi, Abdullah M. Asiri, Tingshuai Li, Xuping Sun

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2019 · 62 citations · 41 references

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Abstract

TiC/C nanofibers (TiC/C NFs) act as an efficient 1-D electrocatalyst for N<sub>2</sub>-to-NH<sub>3</sub> fixation, capable of achieving a large NH<sub>3</sub> yield of 14.1 μg h<sup>−1</sup> mg<sup>−1</sup><sub>cat.</sub> and a high faradaic efficiency of 5.8% at −0.5 V <italic>vs.</italic> RHE in 0.1 M HCl.

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