Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Nanostructured photoelectrochemical solar cell for nitrogen reduction using plasmon-enhanced black silicon

  • Muataz Ali,
  • Fengling Zhou,
  • Kun Chen,
  • Christopher Kotzur,
  • Changlong Xiao,
  • Laure Bourgeois,
  • Xinyi Zhang,
  • Douglas R. MacFarlane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11335
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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In nature, nitrogen fixation is achieved via light-dependent nitrogenases, but industrial photochemical conversion of nitrogen into ammonia has so far proven inefficient. Here, the authors describe a nanostructured black silicon photoelectrochemical cell that can catalyse the process using solar energy.