Everything about Nitrate

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: NitrateA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Efficient conversion of low-concentration nitrate sources into ammonia on a Ru-dispersed Cu nanowire electrocatalystInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluidsCited 9,953 times
5. Go sideways: Denitrifying bacteriaA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: NitriteA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids

  Laura C. Green, David A. Wagner, Joseph Glogowski · 1982 · Analytical Biochemistry · 9,953 citations

• A Rapid, Simple Spectrophotometric Method for Simultaneous Detection of Nitrate and Nitrite

  Katrina M. Miranda, Michael G. Espey, David A. Wink · 2001 · Nitric Oxide · 3,223 citations

• Rapid colorimetric determination of nitrate in plant tissue by nitration of salicylic acid

  D. A. Cataldo, M. Maroon, L. E. Schrader · 1975 · Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis · 2,659 citations

• The nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide pathway in physiology and therapeutics

  Jon O. Lundberg, Eddie Weitzberg, Mark T. Gladwin · 2008 · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 2,432 citations

• A Bacterial Method for the Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater

  D. M. Sigman, K. L. Casciotti, M. Andreani · 2001 · Analytical Chemistry · 1,801 citations

• Unveiling the Activity Origin of a Copper‐based Electrocatalyst for Selective Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia

  Yuting Wang, Wei Zhou, Ranran Jia · 2020 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1,666 citations

• Electrochemical reduction of nitrate to ammonia via direct eight-electron transfer using a copper–molecular solid catalyst

  Gao-Feng Chen, Yifei Yuan, Haifeng Jiang · 2020 · Nature Energy · 1,613 citations

• The synergetic effect of lithium polysulfide and lithium nitrate to prevent lithium dendrite growth

  Weiyang Li, Hongbin Yao, Kai Yan · 2015 · Nature Communications · 1,457 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Efficient conversion of low-concentration nitrate sources into ammonia on a Ru-dispersed Cu nanowire electrocatalyst

  Feng-Yang Chen, Zhen-Yu Wu, Srishti Gupta · 2022 · Nature Nanotechnology · 1,208 citations

• Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate – a step towards a sustainable nitrogen cycle

  Hui Xu, Yuanyuan Ma, Jun Chen · 2022 · Chemical Society Reviews · 1,204 citations

• Ultralow overpotential nitrate reduction to ammonia via a three-step relay mechanism

  Shuhe Han, Hongjiao Li, Tieliang Li · 2023 · Nature Catalysis · 1,034 citations

• Active hydrogen boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

  Kui Fan, Wenfu Xie, Jinze Li · 2022 · Nature Communications · 862 citations

• Splicing the active phases of copper/cobalt-based catalysts achieves high-rate tandem electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia

  Wenhui He, Jian Zhang, Stefan Dieckhöfer · 2022 · Nature Communications · 852 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893
• The Five People You Meet in HeavenMitch Albom · 2003
• 📕Ground-water flow, geochemistry, and effects of agricultural practices on nitrogen transport at study sites in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain physiographic provinces, Patuxent River Basin, MarylandE. Randolph McFarland · 1995
• 📕Nitrate occurrence in U.S. waters (and related questions)John Fedkiw · 1991
• 📕In-situ bioremediation of nitrate-contaminated ground waterPeter B. McMahon · 1998
• 📕Selected ground-water-quality data for the water-resources investigation of Mellette and Todd Counties, South Dakota, 1990-96Janet M. Carter · 1997
• 📕Nitrate and other water-quality characteristics, and nitrogen in the unsaturated zone, in the Red Willow and Hitchcock Counties Special Protection Area, southwest Nebraska, 1993-95G. V. Steele · 1998
• Nitrates in groundwaterLarry W. Canter · 1997

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