Xi Zhang, Yuting Wang, Cuibo Liu*, Yifu Yu*, Siyu Lu, Bin Zhang*, Recent Advances in Non-Noble Metal Electrocatalysts for Nitrate Reduction, Chem. Eng. J., 2021, 403, 126269. (Review) (X-Mol News)

该综述从非贵金属材料在电催化还原硝酸盐方面的应用入手，对电催化还原硝酸盐的机理做了简要介绍，系统总结了过渡金属（单过渡金属、双过渡金属、过渡金属化合物、过渡金属复合物）和非金属材料在电催化还原硝酸盐方面的进展，并介绍了改善电催化还原硝酸盐性能的策略，最后总结了该领域的发展趋势以及面临的挑战，对设计合成其它高效非贵金属基硝酸盐还原电催化剂具有借鉴作用。

本团队提出了“空气→硝酸→氨”人工固氮绿色新途径（Natl. Sci. Rev., 2019, 6, 730–738），在硝酸根电还原催化领域的研究中取得了一系列进展，发表相关论文如下：

1. Yuting Wang, Yifu Yu*, Ranran Jia, Chao Zhang, Bin Zhang*, Electrochemical Synthesis of Nitric Acid from Air and Ammonia through Waste Utilization, Natl. Sci. Rev., 2019, 6, 730–738. (EurekAlert! Science News) (EurekAlert! 中文) (Science China Press News) (ScienceNet.cn)
2. Yuting Wang, Wei Zhou, RanranJia, Yifu Yu, Bin Zhang*, Unveiling the Activity Origin of a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst for Selective Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 5350–5354. (Rationalscience News)
3. Ranran Jia, Yuting Wang, Changhong Wang, Yangfang Ling, Yifu Yu, Bin Zhang*, Boosting Selective Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonium by Constructing Oxygen Vacancies in TiO2, ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 3533–3540.（Rationalscience News)
4. Cuibo Liu, Yuting Wang, Bin Zhang*, Synthesis of Ammonia via an Electroreduction Removal of NO from Exhausted Gas: an Upgrading to N₂ Fixation, Sci. China Chem., 2020,  DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9784-4.
5. Yuting Wang, Bin Zhang*, Unveiling Enzyme-Mimetic Active Intermediates of a Bioinspired Oxo-MoSx Electrocatalyst for Aqueous Nitrate Reduction, J. Energy Chem. 2021, 53, 90–92.
6. Yu Yu, Changhong Wang, Yifu Yu*, Yuting Wang, Bin Zhang, Promoting Selective Electroreduction of Nitrate to Ammonia over Electron-Deficient Co Modulated by Schottky Rectifying Contact, Sci. China Chem., 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9795-xd.(The Sci China Chem Emerging Investigator Issue)
7. Yuting Wang, Cuibo Liu*, Bin Zhang, Yifu Yu*, Self-template Synthesis of Hierarchically Structured Co₃O₄@NiO Bifunctional Electrodes for Selective Nitrate Reduction and Tetrahydroisoquinolines Semi-dehydrogenation, Sci. China Mater., 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s40843-020-1365-0.