The research team led by Zhang Jinying from the School of Electrical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University has made a groundbreaking discovery. They found that, when equipped with a 1.0 wt% rhodium co-catalyst and without the necessity of a sacrificial agent, violet phosphorus nanosheets can operate continuously for a single session of 16 hours. This results in an impressive nitrogen fixation rate of 371 µmol g-1 h-1, with fluctuations remaining within a mere 10% after 8 cycles. Notably, both its nitrogen fixation rate and continuous operational stability surpass those of the vast majority of photocatalysts reported in existing literature.
