Solid-electrolyte interphases enable efficient Li-mediated ammonia electrosynthesis

Abstract

The function and composition of solid-electrolyte interphases in lithium-mediated ammonia electrosynthesis are important yet largely unknown. Recently in Joule and Nature, Chorkendorff, Simonov, and their colleagues demonstrated that engineering the solid-electrolyte interphases is essential to boosting ammonia electrosynthesis up to a record-high rate and current efficiency.