Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 56, Issue 30, Pages 8701-8705Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201703301
Keywords
ammonia synthesis; metal nitrides; photocatalysis; ruthenium clusters; Schottky barrier
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Funding
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologies
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- McGill University
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In many heterogeneous catalysts, the interaction of supported metal species with a matrix can alter the electronic and morphological properties of the metal and manipulate its catalytic properties. III-nitride semiconductors have a unique ability to stabilize ultra-small ruthenium (Ru) clusters (ca. 0.8 nm) at a high loading density up to 5 wt%. n-Type III-nitride nanowires decorated with Ru sub-nanoclusters offer controlled surface charge properties and exhibit superior UV- and visible-light photocatalytic activity for ammonia synthesis at ambient temperature. A metal/semiconductor interfacial Schottky junction with a 0.94 eV barrier height can greatly facilitate photogenerated electron transfer from III-nitrides to Ru, rendering Ru an electron sink that promotes N N bond cleavage, and thereby achieving low-temperature ammonia synthesis.
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