Dual-phase B-doped FeCoNiCuPd high-entropy alloys for nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia

Yankun Wen; Wenchao Zhang; Xiaofan Wang; Shuanglong Lu; Fang Duan; Han Zhu; Mingliang Du

doi:10.1039/d3cc04581a

Dual-phase B-doped FeCoNiCuPd high-entropy alloys for nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Nov 7;59(89):13371-13374. doi: 10.1039/d3cc04581a.

Authors

Yankun Wen¹, Wenchao Zhang², Xiaofan Wang¹, Shuanglong Lu¹, Fang Duan¹, Han Zhu¹, Mingliang Du¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China. zhysw@jiangnan.edu.cn.
² School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, Jiangsu, P. R. China.

PMID: 37876277
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc04581a

Abstract

Dual-phase B-doped FeCoNiCuPd high-entropy alloy (DP-B-HEA) nanoparticles were synthesized via a strategy involving thermodynamically driven solid-phase diffusion. The DP-B-HEA/CNFs showed an outstanding electrochemical N₂ reduction reaction (NRR) performance with an ammonia yield of 24.8 μmol h^-1 cm^-2 and NH₃ faradaic efficiency (FE) of 39.2%. The optimized electronic structures of the HEA resulting from B doping led to the enhanced NRR activity and selectivity.