Reductive Nitrogen Species Activation via Pulsed Electrolysis: Recent Advances and Future Prospects
Abstract
Abstract The electrochemical reduction of nitrogen species offers a sustainable route to mitigate environmental nitrogen pollution while enabling the production of value‐added chemicals such as ammonia, hydroxylamine, and C─N coupled organonitrogen compounds. However, the practical implementation of conventional potentiostatic methods is hindered by poor product selectivity and competing hydrogen evolution. Pulsed electrolysis has emerged as a transformative strategy to address these challenges by synchronizing catalyst surface dynamics with local microenvironmental changes and reaction kinetics. This mini‐review highlights recent advances in pulsed electrolysis for nitrogen species reduction, with a particular focus on how dynamic potentials influence electrocatalyst behavior and the surrounding reaction environment. Key mechanistic insights and cutting‐edge research findings are discussed, followed by an outlook on established systems and future directions toward scalable and energy‐efficient nitrogen activation.
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Authors (10)
Kiarash Torabi
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Duesbergweg 10–14 Mainz 55128 Germany
Rongji Liu
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz Germany
David Leander Troglauer
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz Germany
Christean Nickel
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz Germany
Guillermo Corea
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Duesbergweg 10–14 Mainz 55128 Germany
Tiansheng Bai
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining School of Materials Science and Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) Shenzhen People's Republic of China
Deping Li
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining School of Materials Science and Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) Shenzhen People's Republic of China
Lijie Ci
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining School of Materials Science and Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) Shenzhen People's Republic of China
Bahareh Feizi Mohazzab
Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz Germany
Dandan Gao