Nitrogen-containing Surface Ligands Lead to False Positives for Photofixation of N${}_2$ on Metal Oxide Nanocrystals: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

Daniel Maldonado-Lopez, Po-Wei Huang, Karla R. Sanchez-Lievanos +4

Many ligands commonly used to prepare nanoparticle catalysts with precise nanoscale features contain nitrogen (e.g., oleylamine); here, we found that the use of nitrogen-containing…