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Chlorination-Induced Symmetry Breaking in Cu Single-Atom Sites for Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia
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Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia is attractive for green fertilizer synthesis and pollution remediation, yet its performance is normally hindered by the mismatched generation and consumption of active hydrogen (*H). Here, we engineer the planar chloride coordination to break the local symmetry of Cu single atoms over oxygen-deficient WO3-x, forming Cu1Cl–WO3-x with Cu–O/Cl and Cu–Cl–W motifs to enable dual interfacial relay of *H and *NO2 derived intermediates. The Cu1Cl–WO3-x catalyst achieves an NH3 Faradaic efficiency of 99.7% at −0.8 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode and delivers an NH3 yield rate up to 63.6 mg h−1 cm−2 at −0.9 V with stable operation. In situ electrochemical characterization and theoretical calculations reveal that the asymmetric Cu–Cl–W interface promotes water dissociation and *H relay, while facilitating thermodynamically favorable *NO2 relocation and subsequent hydrogenation, thereby shifting the potential-determining step and lowering the overall energy barrier. This dual-relay strategy might offer a generic route toward efficient NO3−-to-NH3 electrosynthesis.
Keywords:
ammonia synthesis
chlorination engineering
hydrogen spillover
interfacial synergism
nitrate reduction
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