Phosphorus incorporation accelerates ammonia electrosynthesis over a mesoporous Au film

Zechuan Dai; Wenxin Wang; Ziqiang Wang; Shengqi Wang; Hongjie Yu; You Xu; Xiaonian Li; Liang Wang; Hongjing Wang

doi:10.1039/d2cc00274d

Phosphorus incorporation accelerates ammonia electrosynthesis over a mesoporous Au film

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 May 20;58(41):6088-6091. doi: 10.1039/d2cc00274d.

Authors

Zechuan Dai¹, Wenxin Wang¹, Ziqiang Wang¹, Shengqi Wang¹, Hongjie Yu¹, You Xu¹, Xiaonian Li¹, Liang Wang¹, Hongjing Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China. [email protected].

PMID: 35502857
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc00274d

Abstract

In this work, a phosphorus-doped mesoporous Au alloy film is grown on Ni foam (mAuP/NF) via a replacement reaction using diblock copolymers and NaH₂PO₂ as pore-forming agents and a phosphorus dopant, respectively. Due to the phosphorus doping and well-developed mesoporous structure, the obtained mAuP/NF possesses superior NH₃ yield (36.52 µg h^-1 mg^-1_cat.) and faradaic efficiency (20.32%) for ammonia electrosynthesis in neutral conditions, superior to mAu/NF.