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<p>Electrochemical nitric oxide reduction (NORR) under industrially relevant dilute feeds is fundamentally limited by insufficient interfacial NO coverage and rapid loss of reactive intermediates. Here we introduce quantifiable nanoconfinement as a coverage-regulation strategy for NORR in the ppm regime. Hollow multishelled Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoreactors are constructed as a model system, in which shell number defines confinement depth and progressively strengthens confinement by narrowing inter-shell cavities. Under a 1000 ppm NO feed, the three-shell catalyst achieves a Faradaic efficiency of 97.9% and a single-pass NO conversion of 97.3%, which is competitive with systems operating under NO-rich conditions. Finite-element simulations quantitatively show that multishell confinement nonlinearly amplifies intermediate enrichment, increasing local *H and *NH concentrations by over an order of magnitude relative to the single-shell structure while also enhancing local NO coverage. Coverage-dependent density functional theory and transition-state calculations reveal that the confinement-modulated coverage environment reshapes the NORR kinetic and thermodynamic landscape by rebalancing initial *NO hydrogenation and NH<sub>3</sub> desorption, defining a favorable coverage window that balances intermediate activation and product release. These findings establish nanoconfinement-enabled coverage engineering for electrocatalysis under dilute feeds.</p>

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Coverage engineering by shell-number-controlled nanoconfinement enables nitric oxide electroreduction in the ppm regime

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    2026年7月21日

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  • Shanyuhan Jin,
  • Daliang Xu,
  • Peiwen Xu,
  • Kangwei Yin,
  • Jiaxin Du,
  • Han Chen,
  • Jinling Fan,
  • Heng Liang,
  • Zhongbiao Wu,
  • Xuanhao Wu

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Electrochemical nitric oxide reduction (NORR) under industrially relevant dilute feeds is fundamentally limited by insufficient interfacial NO coverage and rapid loss of reactive intermediates. Here we introduce quantifiable nanoconfinement as a coverage-regulation strategy for NORR in the ppm regime. Hollow multishelled Cu2O nanoreactors are constructed as a model system, in which shell number defines confinement depth and progressively strengthens confinement by narrowing inter-shell cavities. Under a 1000 ppm NO feed, the three-shell catalyst achieves a Faradaic efficiency of 97.9% and a single-pass NO conversion of 97.3%, which is competitive with systems operating under NO-rich conditions. Finite-element simulations quantitatively show that multishell confinement nonlinearly amplifies intermediate enrichment, increasing local *H and *NH concentrations by over an order of magnitude relative to the single-shell structure while also enhancing local NO coverage. Coverage-dependent density functional theory and transition-state calculations reveal that the confinement-modulated coverage environment reshapes the NORR kinetic and thermodynamic landscape by rebalancing initial *NO hydrogenation and NH3 desorption, defining a favorable coverage window that balances intermediate activation and product release. These findings establish nanoconfinement-enabled coverage engineering for electrocatalysis under dilute feeds.