{"id":222572,"date":"2025-09-27T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/energy-efficient-catalyst-converts-water-pollutants-into-useful-ammonia"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:28:03","slug":"energy-efficient-catalyst-converts-water-pollutants-into-useful-ammonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/energy-efficient-catalyst-converts-water-pollutants-into-useful-ammonia","title":{"rendered":"Energy-efficient catalyst converts water pollutants into useful ammonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-efficient-catalyst-converts-water-pollutants-into-useful-ammonia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the current method for producing something is estimated to consume a staggering 1\u20132% of the annual global energy supply, it means we need to make a change. The Haber-Bosch process produces ample amounts of ammonia (NH<sub>3<\/sub>)\u2014a valuable chemical compound that has a wide array of uses in fields such as agriculture, technology, and pharmaceuticals\u2014while consuming a lot of energy.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at Tohoku University has made a significant contribution to an alternate method for converting harmful nitrate pollutants in water into ammonia, addressing both environmental and energy challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202519238\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Advanced Functional Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the current method for producing something is estimated to consume a staggering 1\u20132% of the annual global energy supply, it means we need to make a change. The Haber-Bosch process produces ample amounts of ammonia (NH3)\u2014a valuable chemical compound that has a wide array of uses in fields such as agriculture, technology, and pharmaceuticals\u2014while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}