All nitrogen fixing articles
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OpinionSpringing up from the soil
Can we fix nitrogen for plants – and the problem of nitrogen pollution?
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Feature
Getting to the root of soil nitrogen
The farming industry’s reliance on nitrogen compounds is altering the environment, but Ian Le Guillou finds a better understanding of the interplay between plants and microbes could help to reduce the impact
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Research
Aluminium–nitrogen batteries offer alternative ammonia synthesis
Battery simultaneously stores energy and harnesses nitrogen to produce aluminium nitride
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Feature
Ammonia synthesis goes electric
James Mitchell Crow finds that the outlook for renewables-powered electrochemical ammonia production is beginning to brighten
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Research
Light-harvesting clusters and titanium dioxide cooperate to fix nitrogen
Atomically precise metal clusters continue to gather momentum by catalysing the production of ammonia
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Podcast
Nitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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Research
Catalytic fix for nitrogen fixation
Single-atom ruthenium catalyst doubles efficiency of electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia
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Research
Ionic liquids yield ammonia under ambient conditions
Electro-reduction technique could spearhead an ammonia economy
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Feature
Chemists at war
The first world war saw chemistry play a vital role – and in more than just poison gas. Mike Sutton looks back
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Feature
A fixation with nitrogen
Despite decades of work to develop alternative ways to make ammonia, the Haber–Bosch process is here to stay, Mark Peplow discovers
