title: Fast and exothermic reaction of CO2 and Li3N into C-N-containing solid materials.
abstract: The conversion of CO(2) to valuable compounds, which is considered as an effective approach to solve the global warming, represents a great challenge due to the high stability and low reactivity of CO(2). Herein, thermodynamic calculations predicted the feasibility of exothermic reactions between CO(2) and Li(3)N into two important solid materials-carbon nitride and lithium cyanamide. Furthermore, the feasibility was confirmed by experiments, namely, the fast reaction between CO(2) and Li(3)N produced crystal lithium cyanamide and amorphous carbon nitrides. This provides a novel process to control CO(2) emissions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295, United States. yunhangh@mtu.edu
authors.forename: Yun Hang
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huo