https://www.selleckchem.com/products/genipin.html Recent years have witnessed various in-depth research efforts on self-reconstruction behavior toward electrocatalysis. Tracking the phase transformation and evolution of true active sites is of great significance for the development of self-reconstructed electrocatalysts. Here, the optimized atomic sulfur-doped bismuth nanobelt (S-Bi) is fabricated via an electrochemical self-reconstruction evolved from Bi2S3. Advanced technologies have demonstrated that the nonmetallic S atoms have been doped into the lattice Bi frame, leading to the reconstruction of local electronic structure of Bi. The as-prepared S-Bi nanobelt exhibits a remarkable NH3 generation rate of 10.28 μg h-1 mg-1 and Faradaic efficiency of 10.48%. Density functional theory calculations prove that the S doping can significantly lower the energy barrier of the rate-determining step and enlarge the N≡N bond for further dissociation toward N2 fixation. This work not only establishes insights into the evolution process of electrochemically derived self-reconstruction but also unravels the root of the N2 reduction reaction mechanism associated with the atomic nonmetal dopants.One approach for desalinating brackish water is to use electrode materials that electrochemically remove salt ions from water. Recent studies found that sodium-intercalating electrode materials (i.e., materials that reversibly insert Na+ ions into their structures) have higher specific salt storage capacities (mgsalt/gmaterial) than carbon-based electrode materials over smaller or similar voltage windows. These observations have led to the hypothesis that energy demands of electrochemical desalination systems can be decreased by replacing carbon-based electrodes with intercalating electrodes. To test this hypothesis and directly compare intercalation materials, we examined nine electrode materials thought to be capable of sodium intercalation in an electrochemical flow cell with respect