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Distinguishing thermal from non-thermal contributions to plasmonic hydrodefluorination

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arising from Hossein Robatjazi et al. Nature Catalysis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-0466-5 (2020)

In a recent paper1, Robatjazi and colleagues demonstrate hydrodefluorination on Al nanocrystals decorated by Pd islands under illumination and under external heating. They conclude that photocatalysis accomplishes the desired transformation CH3F + D2 → CH3D + DF efficiently and selectively due to non-thermal (hot) electrons, as evidenced by an illumination-induced reduction of the activation energy.

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Fig. 1: Reaction rates for c.w. and white-light illumination as a function of surface temperature.

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    Yonatan Dubi & Joshua H. Baraban

  2. Ilse Katz Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Yonatan Dubi & Yonatan Sivan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Ieng Wai Un & Yonatan Sivan

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Dubi, Y., Un, I.W., Baraban, J.H. et al. Distinguishing thermal from non-thermal contributions to plasmonic hydrodefluorination. Nat Catal 5, 244–246 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-022-00767-6

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