New Review Paper in Materials Advances

Our new review paper on the Progress and challenges in photocatalytic ammonia synthesis just published in Materials Advances! Big congratulations to Qing and Haimiao!

Photocatalytic ammonia (NH3) synthesis from N2 and water driven by solar energy is a sustainable and environment-friend technology, which has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this review, the recent development in the fundamental understanding of photocatalytic NH3 synthesis and the methods of precise NH3 detection were summarized. More importantly the strategy for surface engineering and interface engineering of photocatalysts toward photocatalytic NH3 production has been thoroughly analyzed with an aim to stimulate critically think about the effective methodology for catalysts modification instead of exploring new materials. At the end the challenges, a few concerns were raised from the current reports and future perspectives in this research field were discussed targeting to clarify the reliability and reproducibility of the photochemical process and to direct the future research direction, such as flow reactors design and in-depth understanding of the underlying reaction pathway.