Coupling nitrate capture with ammonia production through bifunctional redox-electrodes (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Coupling nitrate capture with ammonia production through bifunctional redox-electrodes

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Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su and colleagues found a new approach for converting nitrate-contaminated waters – a known carcinogen and a cause of algal blooms in waterways – into valuable ammonia within a single electrochemical cell.

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