New avenues in dinitrogen fixation research.
The present article focuses on a recent finding concerning dinitrogen fixation by using titanium oxide/conducting polymer composite systems and its comparison with an earlier fixation method (Schrauzer process) that makes use of a powdered titanium oxide. Both processes work under the stimulus of light at room temperature and pressure, but dinitrogen is fixed to a solid ammonium salt crystal in the former and to a gaseous ammonia molecule in the latter process. Differences in the physicochemical concepts between the two processes are discussed.
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Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan. hoshino@image.tp.chiba-u.ac.jp
D000818:Animals; D002616:Chemical Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D008027:Light; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry*; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation / Q000502:physiology*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry
D011108:Polymers; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium; D009584:Nitrogen