Identification and elimination of false positives in electrochemical nitrogen reduction studies

Discovering a sustainable route to ammonia as a fertiliser and as an energy carrier is critically important, but many recent reports on the electrochemical nitrogen reduction are false positives. Here the authors uncover the emerging experimental traps and detail protocols to reliably avoid them.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jaecheol Choi, Bryan H. R. Suryanto, Dabin Wang, Hoang-Long Du, Rebecca Y. Hodgetts, Federico M. Ferrero Vallana, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Alexandr N. Simonov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19130-z