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SUBMITTER: Martirez JMP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5744471 | biostudies-other | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Science advances 20171222 12
Despite more than a century of advances in catalyst and production plant design, the Haber-Bosch process for industrial ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) synthesis still requires energy-intensive high temperatures and pressures. We propose taking advantage of sunlight conversion into surface plasmon resonances in Au nanoparticles to enhance the rate of the N<sub>2</sub> dissociation reaction, which is the bottleneck in NH<sub>3</sub> production. We predict that this can be achieved through Mo doping of t ...[more]