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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Configuring a Liquid State High-Entropy Metal Alloy Electrocatalyst.

Sahar Nazari, Ali Najmi, Priyank Kumar, Ali Zavabeti, Francois-Marie Allioux, Anirudh Raju Natarajan, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Ali R Jalili

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Sahar NazariSchool of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2033, Australia.
Ali NajmiSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2033, Australia.
Priyank KumarSchool of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2033, Australia.
Ali ZavabetiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia.
Francois-Marie AlliouxSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2033, Australia.
Anirudh Raju NatarajanLaboratory of Materials Design and Simulation, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland.
Dorna EsrafilzadehGraduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2035, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-294X
Ali R JaliliSchool of Chemistry, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3851-0818

Funding

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award DE230101617Australian Research Council DE210101259Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship Award FT230100396
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A high-entropy liquid metal alloy (Ga-Fe-Zn-Sn-Bi-Ni) is developed to address the multi-step complexity of green ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate. Guided by molecular dynamics, design of experiments, and density functional theory, this alloy exploits high configurational entropy to form diverse, atomically dispersed active sites. The liquid state eliminates endothermic barriers by enabling nitrogen intermediates to move freely to the most energetically favorable sites. Crucially, a hydrogen shuttling mechanism is uncovered where Fe acts as a proton hub while Sn, Ni, and Zn store and transfer hydrogen to Fe, enhancing reaction kinetics and preventing catalyst saturation. This synergy boosts ammonia production rates up to sevenfold while maintaining high Faradaic efficiency (FE). By integrating entropy-driven design, dynamic site reconfiguration, and hydrogen management, this work establishes a robust foundation for efficient, scalable ammonia electrosynthesis in pursuit of NetZero targets.

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design of experimentDFTelectrocatalysisgreen ammoniahigh‐entropy liquid metal alloy

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PMID40530548
PMCPMC12366271

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