Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia

Daming Feng; Lixue Zhou; Timothy J. White; Anthony K. Cheetham; Tianyi Ma; Fengxia Wei

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01169-4

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 203(2023)

Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia

Daming Feng¹, Lixue Zhou¹, Timothy J. White², Anthony K. Cheetham³, Tianyi Ma^4、*, and Fengxia Wei^5、**

Author Affiliations

¹College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People’s Republic of China

²School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore

³Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

⁴School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

⁵Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis 08-03, Singapore 138634, Singapore

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Daming Feng, Lixue Zhou, Timothy J. White, Anthony K. Cheetham, Tianyi Ma, Fengxia Wei. Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 203

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Received: Apr. 12, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 10, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

The Author Email: Ma Tianyi (tianyi.ma@rmit.edu.au), Wei Fengxia (wei_fengxia@imre.a-star.edu.sg)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01169-4

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