The goal there would be to make this method more energy efficient that the Haber-Bosch process. Alongside the Sydney team's work, researchers elsewhere in the world are trying to greenify ammonia ...

Humanity has an insatiable appetite for ammonia: This substance is used to make fertilizer, which in turn is used in most modern agriculture. Until now, the Haber-Bosch process has been the method of ...

To produce the large quantities of fertilizer needed to sustain global food production, industry relies on the Haber-Bosch process to split dinitrogen from the air to synthesize ammonia. But to ...

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 ...

A breakthrough in the fight against hunger, three Nobel Prizes, and 150 million tonnes of annual production—yet still a tricky topic for research: For over 100 years, the chemical industry has been ...