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Beyond Fossil Fuel-Driven Nitrogen Transformations

  • Jingguang G. Chen
  • , Richard M. Crooks
  • , Lance C. Seefeldt
  • , Kara L. Bren
  • , R. Morris Bullock
  • , Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
  • , Patrick L. Holland
  • , Brian Hoffman
  • , Michael J. Janik
  • , Anne K. Jones
  • , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
  • , Paul King
  • , Kyle M. Lancaster
  • , Sergei V. Lymar
  • , Peter Pfromm
  • , William F. Schneider
  • , Richard R. Schrock
  • Columbia University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Utah State University
  • University of Rochester
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Texas A&M University
  • Yale University
  • Northwestern University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Arizona State University
  • Cornell University
  • Washington State University Pullman
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Nitrogen is fundamental to all of life and many industrial processes. The interchange of nitrogen oxidation states in the industrial production of ammonia, nitric acid, and other commodity chemicals is largely powered by fossil fuels. A key goal of contemporary research in the field of nitrogen chemistry is to minimize the use of fossil fuels by developing more efficient heterogeneous, homogeneous, photo-, and electrocatalytic processes or by adapting the enzymatic processes underlying the natural nitrogen cycle. These approaches, as well as the challenges involved, are discussed in this Review.

Original languageAmerican English
Article numbereaar6611
Number of pages7
JournalScience
Volume360
Issue number6391
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 May 2018

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NLR Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-2700-70628

Keywords

  • chemistry
  • fossil fuels
  • nitrogen

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