A uranium-based compound improves manufacturing of nitrogen products
(WorldNews Switzerland)

19.07.17- EPFL scientists have developed a uranium-based complex that can allow nitrogen fixation reactions to take place in ambient conditions. The work overcomes one of the biggest difficulties to building more efficient industrial-scale nitrogen products like ammonia. Nitrogen is abundantly available in nature and forms the basis for many valuable products, both natural and artificial. This requires a reaction known as `nitrogen fixation`, whereby molecular nitrogen is split into two atoms of nitrogen that can then...