{"id":3306,"date":"2018-03-21T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2018-03-29T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:59:44","slug":"nitrogen-reduction-reactions-fact-or-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"Nitrogen Reduction Reactions &#8211; Fact or Artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/fact-artifact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"Cover Final\" src=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/fact-artifact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artifacts that arise from adventitious carbon contamination of catalysts used in the electrochemical, photochemical and thermochemical reduction of CO<sub>2<\/sub> to synthetic chemicals and fuels (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\/real-or-artifact-co2-photo-catalysis-versus-carbon-contamination\">www.advancedsciencenews.com<\/a>), especially at low total conversions and low conversion rates, can only be authenticated through rigorous <sup>13<\/sup>CO<sub>2<\/sub> isotope-labeling proof-of-product experimentation to avoid the reporting of artifacts. Similarly, in the reduction of N<sub>2<\/sub> to ammonia in aqueous solution using the aforementioned approaches, one must be equally diligent to apply strong checks to prevent the reporting of false-positives that can originate from impurities in the catalysts and N<sub>2<\/sub> feed gas, and which require robust <sup>15<\/sup>N<sub>2<\/sub> isotope labeling to ensure unequivocal identification of the source of the ammonia.<br \/>\nGraphic image courtesy of Chenxi Qian.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be read on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\/nitrogen-reduction-reactions-fact-or-artifact\/\">Advanced Science News<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artifacts that arise from adventitious carbon contamination of catalysts used in the electrochemical, photochemical and thermochemical reduction of CO2 to synthetic chemicals and fuels (www.advancedsciencenews.com), especially at low total conversions and low conversion rates, can only be authenticated through rigorous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=3306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}