Disentangling charge carrier from photothermal effects in plasmonic metal nanostructures

Chao Zhan; Bo-Wen Liu; Yi-Fan Huang; Shu Hu; Bin Ren; Martin Moskovits; Zhong-Qun Tian

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10771-3

Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Disentangling charge carrier from photothermal effects in plasmonic metal nanostructures

Chao Zhan,
Bo-Wen Liu,
Yi-Fan Huang,
Shu Hu,
Bin Ren,
Martin Moskovits,
Zhong-Qun Tian

Affiliations

Chao Zhan: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University
Bo-Wen Liu: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University
Yi-Fan Huang: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University
Shu Hu: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University
Bin Ren: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University
Martin Moskovits: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Zhong-Qun Tian: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10771-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Confidently separating the photothermal effect from the generation of energetic charge carriers and quantifying their relative contribution to chemical reactions remain a great challenge in plasmon-mediated chemical reactions. Here, authors describe a strategy based on the construction of a plasmonic electrode coupled with photoelectrochemistry to quantitatively disentangle these two effects.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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