Plasma‐Electrocatalysis Cascade Synthesis of Deuterated Ammonia
Abstract Deuterated ammonia (ND 3 ) exhibits growing market demand in the fields of chemical analysis, pharmaceutical industry and semiconductor manufacturing. Currently, industrial production of ND 3 relies on harsh conditions and complex processes, leading to high production cost and security risk. Herein, we propose a sustainable relay strategy to produce ND 3 by using air and deuterium oxide (D 2 O) as raw materials, including plasma‐driven air‐to‐NO x conversion and electrocatalytic NO x – ‐to‐ND 3 conversion. The insufficient supply of reactive deuterium (*D) leads to sluggish kinetics of electrocatalytic deuterium reaction. The well‐designed F modified cobalt (F–Co) catalyst exhibits a remarkable yield of 0.75 mmol h −1 cm −2 and a Faradaic efficiency of 80.43% for ND 3 at 200 mA cm −2 . The combined results of characterizations reveal that fluorine (F) atom can boost D 2 O dissociation and suppress competing deuterium evolution reaction, thereby providing abundant *D for deuteration reaction. Notably, a pilot‐scale demonstration system, consisting of non‐thermal plasma, flow electrolyzer, air stripping and ammonia absorber, is constructed to produce practicable ND 3 solution (2.8 wt%) with ∼21.45 mmol h −1 ND 3 production capability by using air and D 2 O as sources.
Authors
- Kaiwen Yang
- Shuhe Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0514-5669)
- Yanmei Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7673-4367)
- Yifu Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-1350)
- Qixing Wang
- Bin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0542-1819)
- Runchao Qin
Institutions
- Tianjin University (CN)
- Tianjin Energy Investment Group (China) (CN)
- Unité Matériaux et Transformations (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202515856
- Primary Topic
- Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00