Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Two distinctive energy migration pathways of monolayer molecules on metal nanoparticle surfaces

  • Jiebo Li,
  • Huifeng Qian,
  • Hailong Chen,
  • Zhun Zhao,
  • Kaijun Yuan,
  • Guangxu Chen,
  • Andrea Miranda,
  • Xunmin Guo,
  • Yajing Chen,
  • Nanfeng Zheng,
  • Michael S. Wong,
  • Junrong Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10749
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Energy migrations at metal nanomaterial surfaces are fundamentally important to heterogeneous reactions. Here, the authors employ ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy to show two distinctive energy migration pathways of monolayer adsorbate molecules on differently sized metal nanoparticle surfaces.