Alkylthiol surface engineering: an effective strategy toward enhanced electrocatalytic N2-to-NH3 fixation by a CoP nanoarray

Zhaobai Du; Jie Liang; Shaoxiong Li; Zhaoquan Xu; Tingshuai Li; Qian Liu; Yonglan Luo; Fang Zhang; Yang Liu; Qingquan Kong; Xifeng Shi; Bo Tang; Abdullah Mohamed Asiri; Baihai Li; Xuping Sun

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Alkylthiol surface engineering: an effective strategy toward enhanced electrocatalytic N2-to-NH3 fixation by a CoP nanoarray

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Building a hydrophobic self-assembled monolayer of octadecanethiol on a CoP nanoarray on a titanium mesh (C18@CoP/TM) greatly enhances the N2 reduction activity with an NH3 yield of 1.44 × 10−10 mol s−1 cm−2 and a FE of 14.03% in 0.1 M Na2SO4.

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