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Journal Article
Electrosynthesis of pure urea from pretreated flue gas in a proton-limited environment established in a porous solid-state electrolyte electrolyser
2025
Overview
The electrosynthesis of pure urea via the co-reduction of CO
2
and N
2
remains challenging. Here we show that a proton-limited environment established in an electrolyser equipped with porous solid-state electrolyte, devoid of an aqueous electrolyte, can suppress the hydrogen evolution reaction and excessive hydrogenation of N
2
to ammonia. This can instead be conducive to the C–N coupling of *CO
2
with *NHNH (the intermediate from the semi-hydrogenation of N
2
), thereby facilitating the production of urea. By using nanosheets of an ultrathin two-dimensional metal–azolate framework with cyclic heterotrimetal clusters as catalyst, the Faradaic efficiency of urea production from pretreated flue gas (which contains mainly 85% N
2
and 15% CO
2
) is as high as 65.5%, and no ammonia and other liquid products were generated. At a low cell voltage of 2.0 V, the current can reach 100 mA, and the urea production rate is as high as 5.07 g g
cat
−1
h
−1
or 84.4 mmol g
cat
−1
h
−1
. Notably, it can continuously produce 6.2 wt% pure urea aqueous solution for at least 30 h, and about 1.24 g pure urea solid was obtained. The use of pretreated flue gas as a direct feedstock significantly reduces input costs, and the high reaction rate and selectivity contribute to a reduction in system scale and operational costs.
This study reveals that the synergistic effect of proton-limited environments and multi-site cooperative activation coupling substantially improves the electrocatalytic co-reduction of CO
2
and N
2
towards urea production, enabling gram-scale synthesis.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
