💡Development of catalyst capable of synthesizing ammonia with high efficiency at low temperature
- Newly developed catalyst can produce ammonia with high efficiency at a lower temperature than before
- It has several times higher activity than iron catalyst currently widely used industrially
- The new catalyst forms an active structure automatically (self-organizing) during reaction
Overview
Professor Hideo Hosono (Director of Elementary Strategy Research Center) and Professor Hara Tomohiro at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Associate Professor Masaaki Kitano of the Center for Elemental Strategy Research, etc., added calcium amide [Terminology 1] (Ba We have discovered that a catalyst in which ruthenium nanoparticles are immobilized on -Ca (NH 2) 2) can synthesize ammonia with a efficiency 100 times higher than that of conventional ruthenium catalysts at a low temperature of 300 ° C or less.
This catalyst showed catalytic performance several times higher than that of industrially used iron catalyst.
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