Joshua M. McEnaney

TL;DR: A protocol for the electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia enables isotope-sensitive quantification of the ammonia produced and the identification and removal of contaminants, and should help to prevent false positives from appearing in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, metal phosphides have emerged as promising Earth-abundant alternatives to platinum for catalyzing the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acidic aqueous solutions.

TL;DR: Under UV illumination in both acidic and neutral-pH solutions, FeP nanoparticles deposited on TiO2 produced H2 at rates and amounts that begin to approach those of Pt/TiO2, therefore FeP is a highly Earth-abundant material for efficiently facilitating the HER both electrocatalytic and photocatalytically.

TL;DR: Amorphous molybdenum phosphide (MoP) nanoparticles have been synthesized and characterized as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in 0.50 M H2SO4 (pH 0.3).

TL;DR: In this article, an electrochemical lithium cycling process was proposed for sustainable ammonia synthesis via the ability to directly couple to renewable sources of electricity and can facilitate localized production, where Li-based materials are well suited to carry out this process, though other materials may also be useful.