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ArticleScience advances2025

Intensified atomic utilization efficiency of single-atom catalysts for nitrate conversion via electrified nanoporous membrane.

Xiaoxiong Wang, Lea R Winter, Xuanhao Wu, Yingzheng Fan, Yumeng Zhao, Jae-Hong Kim, Menachem Elimelech

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Xiaoxiong WangInstitute for Ocean Engineering & Center of Double Helix, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9596-8759
Lea R WinterDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6409-788X
Xuanhao WuDepartment of Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6177-6089
Yingzheng FanDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-8265-8574
Yumeng ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9279-8501
Jae-Hong KimDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2224-3516
Menachem ElimelechDepartment Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4186-1563

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Abstract

Conventional electrochemical reactors for nitrate reduction typically suffer from limited reaction efficiency when applied for real-world water treatment due to poor utilization of electrocatalytic active sites. Here, we applied nanoporous electrofiltration to intensify atomic utilization by incorporating single-atom catalysts into an electrified membrane for reducing low-concentration nitrate to ammonia under realistic water conditions. We enhance the exposure of single atoms in nanopores by coating the catalysts on a carbon nanotube-interwoven membrane framework. Electrofiltration intensifies the transport and adsorption of nitrate in confined nanopores with highly exposed single-atom active sites to enhance reduction. The membrane enables a superior ammonia turnover frequency of 15.1 grams of nitrogen per gram of metal per hour, up to four orders of magnitude higher than that reported in the literature, under both high removal efficiency and Faradaic efficiency of over 86% when treating influents with a low nitrate concentration of 100 milligrams of nitrogen per liter in a residence time on the order of seconds.

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