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ArticleiScience2019

Efficient Nitrogen Fixation Catalyzed by Gallium Nitride Nanowire Using Nitrogen and Water.

Mingxin Liu, Yichen Wang, Xianghua Kong, Lida Tan, Lu Li, Shaobo Cheng, Gianluigi Botton, Hong Guo, Zetian Mi, Chao-Jun Li

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Article in iScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Mingxin LiuDepartment of Chemistry and FRQNT Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysts, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Avenue, Ann Arhor, MI 48109, USA.
Yichen WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Xianghua KongDepartment of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.
Lida TanDepartment of Chemistry and FRQNT Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysts, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada.
Lu LiState Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Shaobo ChengDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada.
Gianluigi BottonDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada.
Hong GuoDepartment of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.
Zetian MiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Avenue, Ann Arhor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada. Electronic address: ztmi@umich.edu.
Chao-Jun LiDepartment of Chemistry and FRQNT Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysts, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada. Electronic address: cj.li@mcgill.ca.
McGill University · CAMcMaster University · CACentre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis · CAState Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative ChemistryUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ammonia is one of the most important bulk chemicals in modern society. However, the highly energy-extensive contemporary industrial production of ammonia was developed in the early 20th century and requires extensive heating of highly pressurized flammable hydrogen gas, whose global production still relies heavily on non-sustainable petroleum. The development of "sustainable" nitrogen fixation process represents a grand aspirational chemical pursuit concerning our future human well-being. Herein, we report an ultra-stable nitride-based photosensitizing semiconductor that enables efficient, sustainable, and mild photochemical nitrogen fixation. The catalyst exhibits strong chemisorption of nitrogen and enables immediate electron donation from its surface vacancy to nitrogen. In addition, it was also demonstrated that the nitride-based semiconductor possesses the potential to minimize electron-hole recombination.

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CatalysisChemical ReactionDensity Functional Theory (DFT)Nanostructure

Identifiers

PMID31288155
PMCPMC6614754
OpenAlexW2955623704

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