DOI: 10.1002/adsc.70686 ISSN: 1615-4150

Entropy‐Engineered Prussian Blue Nanocubes Decouple Kinetic Bottlenecks for Selective Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Conversion in Neutral Media

Lixue Zhou, Yiman Huang, Zhiqiang Li, Huixin Wang, Tasmia Zaman, Daming Feng, Fengxia Wei, Chunhua Ge, Xiangdong Zhang

Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction (NO 3 RR) in neutral media offers a sustainable route for decentralized ammonia synthesis, yet remains hindered by sluggish proton‐coupled electron transfer (PCET) and severe *NO 2 poisoning. In unbuffered media, low proton availability disrupts the Volmer–Heyrovsky equilibrium, while heterogeneous active sites exacerbate competition between *H and nitrogenous intermediates, compromising selectivity. Herein, we deploy configurational entropy as a thermodynamic lever to homogenize interfacial coordination microenvironments and decouple these kinetic bottlenecks. A quinary high‐entropy Prussian blue analog (CNCMZ PBA) is synthesized via a scalable room‐temperature co‐precipitaion route, featuring equimolar Cu, Ni, Co, Mn, and Zn integrated within a single‐phase cubic lattice (Δ S config  = 1.619 R). This entropy‐stabilized framework eliminates compositional segregation and establishes uniform MN≡CFe bridging motifs, which collectively flatten the local adsorption energy landscape and synchronize *H generation with multi‐step *NO x hydrogenation. Operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, coupled with Bode phase and Distribution of Relaxation Times analysis, quantitatively reveals that this entropy‐engineered microenvironment reduces interfacial charge–transfer resistance by 68% and accelerates the apparent time constant ( τ ). Consequently, the system sustains optimal *H/*NO x surface coverage, effectively bypassing the rate‐determining *NO 2 conversion step. CNCMZ PBA delivers an exceptional NH 3 yield rate of 5.283 mg h −1 mg cat. −1 and a peak Faraday efficiency of 97.76% at −0.9 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode in neutral media, with negligible nitrite accumulation and stable operation for over 120 h. This work establishes entropy‐driven coordination homogenization as a generalizable design principle for pH‐dependent PCET pathways, advancing neutral‐media electrocatalysis toward practical nitrogen cycling.

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