{"id":246196,"date":"2026-10-30T03:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-catalyst-builds-proton-highways-to-tackle-a-long-standing-hurdle-in-green-ammonia-synthesis"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:55:43","slug":"new-catalyst-builds-proton-highways-to-tackle-a-long-standing-hurdle-in-green-ammonia-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-catalyst-builds-proton-highways-to-tackle-a-long-standing-hurdle-in-green-ammonia-synthesis","title":{"rendered":"New catalyst builds proton highways to tackle a long-standing hurdle in green ammonia synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over a century ago, the Haber-Bosch process, a two-step reaction for the synthesis of ammonia (NH\u2083), an irreplaceable chemical for the fertilizer industry, prevented the world from going into a serious food crisis. Today, however, the same method consumes about 1% of global energy and contributes more than 1% of annual anthropogenic CO\u2082 emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, researchers designed a new covalent organic framework that provided a promising solution to a long-standing problem in green ammonia synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>The team designed hydroxyl-functionalized copper phthalocyanine-based covalent organic frameworks as electrocatalysts for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction (NO\u2083RR). This process emerged as a viable, greener alternative to the industrial <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-barrier-low-temp-ammonia-synthesis-iron.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Haber-Bosch process<\/a>, which is known to rely heavily on harsh high-temperature and high-pressure conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a century ago, the Haber-Bosch process, a two-step reaction for the synthesis of ammonia (NH\u2083), an irreplaceable chemical for the fertilizer industry, prevented the world from going into a serious food crisis. Today, however, the same method consumes about 1% of global energy and contributes more than 1% of annual anthropogenic CO\u2082 emissions. In [\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-246196","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\/246196","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=246196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}