“…The literature suggests that the nitrogen of their lattice is involved in ammonia production. The discoveries of Co−N−C, [24] Ru/LaN/ZrH 2 , [26] and TM / Re N systems [32, 33] further demonstrate the contribution of lattice nitrogen, as well as its vacancies, to N 2 activation, with much improved catalytic activities in ammonia synthesis. In this work, the activation energies of TM /La−Al−N were comparable to previously reported Co/CeN [41] (45 kJ mol −1 at 0.9 MPa), Co−N−C [24] (50 kJ mol −1 at 1.0 MPa), and Ru/3LaN/ZrH 2 [26] (64 kJ mol −1 at 1.0 MPa), showing that the activation barrier of the rate‐determining step was significantly suppressed by utilizing a nitride support.…”