Iron partially occupying sulfur vacancies in WS2 boosts electrochemical nitrogen fixation at low potentials

Jiuxiao Sun; Xue Li; Tiantian Xiong; Ying Ling; Zehui Yang

doi:10.1039/d2cc01588a

Iron partially occupying sulfur vacancies in WS₂ boosts electrochemical nitrogen fixation at low potentials

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jun 28;58(52):7261-7264. doi: 10.1039/d2cc01588a.

Authors

Jiuxiao Sun¹, Xue Li¹, Tiantian Xiong², Ying Ling², Zehui Yang^{2

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Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Hubei New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, 430200 Wuhan, P. R. China.
² Sustainable Energy Laboratory, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, 388 Lumo RD, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China. lingy3991@gmail.com.
³ Zhejiang Institute, China University of Geosciences, Hangzhou, 311305, P. R. China.

PMID: 35670486
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc01588a

Abstract

Metallic Fe nanoparticles partially occupy the sulfur vacancies at edge sites of WS₂ leading to 4-fold higher NRR performance due to the boosted p-d hybridization between Fe and N atoms.