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ArticleFaraday discussions2023

The origin of overpotential in lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction.

O Westhead, R Tort, M Spry, J Rietbrock, R Jervis, A Grimaud, A Bagger, I E L Stephens

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Article in Faraday discussions, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The Role of Ethanol in Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  7. Revealing Mechanisms of Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Reaction from First-Principles Simulations.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

O WestheadDepartment of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. i.stephens@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3377-3582
R TortDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. a.bagger@imperial.ac.uk.
M SpryDepartment of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. i.stephens@imperial.ac.uk.
J RietbrockDepartment of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. i.stephens@imperial.ac.uk.
R JervisElectrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-7802
A GrimaudSolid-State Chemistry and Energy Laboratory, UMR8260, CNRS, Collège de France, France.
A BaggerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. a.bagger@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-029X
I E L StephensDepartment of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. i.stephens@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2157-492X
Imperial College London · GBBiochemical Society · GBBoston College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The verification of the lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction system in 2019 has led to an explosion in the literature focussing on improving the metrics of faradaic efficiency, stability, and activity. However, while the literature acknowledges the vast intrinsic overpotential for nitrogen reduction due to the reliance on

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PMID37089070
PMCPMC10354832
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