Making Green Ammonia from Water and Air: Nitrogen vacancy engineering for N2 dissociation

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Grand Challenge: The Nano and Quantum world

Owing to ammonia’s significant contribution as a fertilizer and building block for the synthesis of various pharmaceutical products, it is recognized as one of the chemical mainstays of the modern world. As a fuel, ammonia has an energy density by volume that is twice that of liquid hydrogen and it is easy to transport. The predominant method for ammonia production has huge fossil-energy consumption and significant greenhouse gas emission. The urgency of replacing fossil fuels and mitigating the global climatic change motivates the global effort for the development of a sustainable energy system; crucial to this effort is the interconversion of small molecules such as CO2 and N2.

Co-supervisor: Oliver Conquest, Hongyang Ma
Email contact: [email protected]

Supervisor

Professor Catherine Stampfl.

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School of Physics

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