“…Recently, the electrochemical reduction of nitrate has gained renewed interest in view of its relevance not only to the production of some valuable compounds, such as nitrous oxide for medical applications, hydroxylamine for the manufacture of caprolactam, and ammonia for fertilizers [10] but also to the removal of nitrate contamination in groundwater [10,11] and radio-active waste from nuclear industry [10,[12][13][14]. The reduction process has been studied on pure metal [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], alloy [19,25,26], and adatom-modified electrodes [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], involving mostly polycrystalline and platinized platinum electrodes in acidic solutions [1][2][3][4][5]…”