High-throughput screening of single-atom catalysts confined in monolayer black phosphorus for efficient nitrogen reduction reaction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The discovery of metal-nitrogen centers as the active sites for electrolysis has aroused significant interest in utilizing single-atom catalysts for nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). Properly designed nanostructured catalysts that strongly interact with nitrogen molecules (N2) can promote adsorption and activation, thereby resulting in efficient catalysts with high stability, activity, and selectivity. In this study, using density functional theory calculations, we selected monolayer black phosphorus (BP) as the substrate and screened a series of single-atom transition metals confined in tri-coordinated and tetra-coordinated active centers (without and with N dopants) to electro-catalyze NRR. As a result, we have identified two promising candidates (Hf1-N1P2-1 and Tc1-N4), which exhibit not only low overpotentials of 0.56 and 0.49 V but also high thermodynamic and electrochemical stability, as well as good selectivity towards NRR over the competing hydrogen evolution reaction. We also demonstrate the ability of Hf1-N1P2-1 and Tc1-N4 to activate and hydrogenate N2 by donating electrons and regulating charge transfer. This study not only predicts new BP-based promising catalysts but also provides guidance for the rational design of high-performance NRR electrocatalysts under ambient conditions.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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