Depiction of the boron-mediated conversion of dinitrogen from the air to ammonia used in fertiliser.
Depiction of the boron-mediated conversion of dinitrogen from the air to ammonia used in fertiliser. The Würzburg Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron receives 800,000 euros - thanks to a research funding initiative of the governing coalition of the Free State of Bavaria. The European energy crisis is having widespread effects on Germany, igniting a renewed interest in how the building blocks of our society are made and used. Ammonia is a key part of synthetic fertilizers that allow the world's population to be fed, but its production via the Haber-Bosch process is massively energy-intensive, consuming roughly 2% of global energy production and accounting for nearly 5% of worldwide natural gas usage. A recent research promotion initiative of the governing coalition of the Free State of Bavaria has selected the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron (ICB) of Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg to receive 800,000 euros research funding for the development of environmentally-friendly, boron-mediated processes for the production of fertilizer. An institute dedicated to applied boron research . The ICB has already established itself as the world's leading location for the chemistry of the element boron.
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