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Demonstrates high ammonia yield in nitrate conversion, suggesting a new catalyst design approach.
High‐entropy alloys (HEAs) are interesting for sustainable electrocatalytic nitrate‐to‐ammonia but suffer from low atom utilization and insufficient exposure of active sites. Here, we report a wrinkled PdFeCoNiCuIn high‐entropy metallene (HEM) that leverages a structural‐electronic dual regulation strategy to transcend these limitations. The incorporation of the p‐block element indium (In) triggers a strong p‐d orbital hybridization that synergizes with the intrinsic metallene architecture to construct a broad adsorption energy landscape. This architecture enables a cross‐site tandem catalytic pathway that spatially decouples nitrate activation from ammonia desorption, thereby circumventing scaling constraints. Consequently, the PdFeCoNiCuIn‐HEM delivers a remarkable ammonia Faradaic efficiency of 99.3% and a yield rate of 4.55 mmol h −1 mg cat −1 . Furthermore, the rechargeable Zn‐NO 3 − battery assembled with the PdFeCoNiCuIn‐HEM as cathode achieves a high open‐circuit voltage of 1.48 V, a power density of 7.36 mW cm −2 , and stable cycling over 100 h. This work provides a practical and generalizable design strategy for developing efficient NRA catalysts.
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