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Cover Picture: Hot Electrons at Solid–Liquid Interfaces: A Large Chemoelectric Effect during the Catalytic Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 36/2016)
Author(s) -
Nedrygailov Ievgen I.,
Lee Changhwan,
Moon Song Yi,
Lee Hyosun,
Park Jeong Young
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201606062
Subject(s) - exothermic reaction , hydrogen peroxide , catalysis , chemistry , yield (engineering) , decomposition , electron , hydrogen , chemical decomposition , materials science , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
A hot electron flow is expected to be a general phenomenon in exothermic chemical reactions at the gas/solid and solid/liquid interface. In their Communication on page 10859 ff., J. Y. Park and co‐workers demonstrate the detection of hot electrons as a chemicurrent generated at the solid/liquid interface during the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalyzed on Schottky nanodiodes, and show that the chemicurrent yield can reach values of up to 1/10 electrons per O 2 molecule.