Ammonia has enormous potential as a fuel of the future, but most current production methods make it a dirty source of energy. Yet a new method from MIT that would derive the compound using the Earth's ...

Ammonia is predicted to become the leading fuel source for the world’s giant cargo ships by 2050. Yet no vessel actually runs on the pungent, carbonless compound today. In labs and shipyards around ...

Humans weren’t the first organisms on this planet to figure out how to turn the abundance of nitrogen in the atmosphere into a chemically useful form; that honor goes to some microbes that learned how ...

Ammonia sits at the heart of modern agriculture and heavy industry, but the way the world makes it today is one of the most ...

Nanocrystals (left) capture light (hv) and then transfer electrons (e-) to nitrogenase enzymes (upper right) to convert dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3). A sacrificial reaction (bottom right) ...

The production of ammonia, a major ingredient in fertilizers, involves greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have quantified ways to reduce carbon impacts in this process. Scientists evaluate how to ...

The world depends on ammonia as a fertilizer and for use in myriad other industries, but its production heavily depends on fossil fuels. Making the compound releases more than 450 million metric tons ...

As wind and solar power make up an increasingly large share of energy production in the U.S., finding ways to store the intermittent energy they create is critical for when the wind isn’t blowing and ...