Highly Efficient Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid over a Palladium-Nanoparticle-Based Mott-Schottky Photocatalyst

Exploiting useful contacts: The exceptional catalytic performance of a photocatalyst composed of Pd nanoparticles and mesoporous carbon nitride for the dehydrogenation of formic acid in water at room temperature to produce H2 gas (see picture) is due to enhanced electron enrichment of the Pd nanoparticles through charge transfer at the interface of the Mott–Schottky contact.