Increasing the capacity of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is an effective strategy to enhance food security while simultaneously reducing the carbon and nitrogen footprint of agriculture. Nanotechnology offers several pathways to enhance BNF successfully.
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Funding support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Program for Junior and Senior Researchers, Phase 2 (grant agreement no. 754340) and via the NanoSolveIT project (grant agreement no. 814572) and the BBSRC Sustainable Agriculture Research Innovation Club grant (grant no. BB/R021716/1). The Royal Society International Exchange Programs (grant nos. 1853690 and 2122860), the National Key R&D Program of China (grant nos. 2017YFD0801103 and 2017YFD0801300), and the 111 project of the Education Ministry of China (grant no. B18053) the National Natural Science Foundation (grant no. 32130081) are also acknowledged. T.L.O'K., J.C.W., and C.L.H. acknowledge the support from the National Science Foundation under grant no. CHE-2001611, the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. The CSN is part of the Centers for Chemical Innovation Program.
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Li, M., Gao, L., White, J.C. et al. Nano-enabled strategies to enhance biological nitrogen fixation. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 688–691 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01392-5
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