Ammonia is commonly used in fertilizer because it has the highest nitrogen content of commercial fertilizers, making it essential for crop production. However, two carbon dioxide molecules are made ...

Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The process, still in use today, ushered in a ...

In a project out of Stanford’s Zarelab, scientists Richard Zare, Xiaowei Song and Chanbasha Basheer discovered a new, eco-friendly chemical process that they say could transform how we create ammonia, ...

Making ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen via the Haber-Bosch process has been critical to fertilizing the world’s crops for more than a century, but there’s been little need to run the reaction in ...

We here on Earth live at the bottom of an ocean of nitrogen. Nearly 80% of every breath we take is nitrogen, and the element is a vital component of the building blocks of life. Nitrogen is critical ...

Ammonia plays a critical role in food production and industrial development, with a global market size of approximately 175 million metric tons and a market value of $67 billion. Likewise, it is a ...

Ammonia production via the Haber-Bosch process is the chemical industry’s greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 2% of global energy consumption. Now, a Boston-based start-up ...

HOUSTON – (May 2, 2022) – A dash of ruthenium atoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment. Collaborators at ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2003--Wahlco Inc., Hamon Research-Cottrell, and their licensor EC&C Technologies Inc. have obtained a permanent injunction against Environmental Elements ...

Engineers have developed a high-performance nanowire catalyst that pulls ammonia and solid ammonia (fertilizer) from nitrate, a common contaminant in industrial wastewater and polluted groundwater. A ...