Atomic-Shell Engineering of GeSx-Au Nanorods Synergistically Suppresses Phonon Scattering and Activates N2 for Near-Infrared-Driven Ammonia Synthesis

adsorption and activation, thereby bridging hot-carrier dynamics with molecular reduction kinetics. This work provides a definitive strategy for overcoming fundamental energy loss limitations in plasmonic photocatalysis by concurrently engineering the energy dissipation pathway and the atomic catalytic environment.