Low-carbon ammonia offers alternative for agriculture and hydrogen transport

> RMIT Research Fellow and lead author of a study on this topic, Dr. Karma Zuraiqi, said her team's greener alternative used 20% less heat and 98% less pressure than the century-old Haber-Bosch process used today for splitting nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia.

That is pretty impressive! Even if this doesn't revolutionize our energy infrastructure, it will change a lot of our modern agriculture and chemical manufacturing.

> ... new technique by creating tiny liquid metal droplets containing copper and gallium ... as the catalyst to break apart the raw ingredients of nitrogen and hydrogen.

> "Liquid metals allow us to move the chemical elements around in a more dynamic way that gets everything to the interface and enables more efficient reactions, ideal for catalysis," Daeneke said. "Copper and gallium separately had both been discounted as famously bad catalysts for ammonia production, yet together they do the job extremely well."