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Xiao T, Diao P. Quantifying Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Induced Enhancement on Metal@Cu 2O Composites for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2025:e2501069. [PMID: 40244077 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202501069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2025] [Revised: 03/30/2025] [Indexed: 04/18/2025]
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The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metal nanoparticles can substantially enhance the activity of photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) reactions. However, quantifying the respective contributions of different LSPR mechanisms to the enhancement of PEC performance remains an urgent challenge. In this work, Cu@Cu2O composites prepared by annealing Cu2O under an inert atmosphere and electrodeposited metal@Cu2O composites (MED@Cu2O, MED = CuED, AuED, AgED, PdED, PtED) are employed as platform materials to investigate the LSPR effect on the PEC hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). All the composites exhibited remarkably LSPR-enhanced activity toward PEC HER. The contributions of two LSPR mechanisms, plasmon induced resonance energy transfer (PIRET) and hot electron transfer (HET), to the photocurrent on Cu@Cu2O and CuED@Cu2O are quantified by using different bands of incident light. Moreover, using MED@Cu2O composites, the effects of both the metal species and the applied potential on HET are quantitatively investigated. The results reveal that a pronounced HET enhancement occurs only when the LSPR peak energy is lower than the semiconductor bandgap energy (Eg) and that HET strengthens as the applied potential becomes more negative for PEC HER. This work therefore provides a quantitative understanding of the roles of PIRET and HET in boosting PEC activity.
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- Tiantian Xiao
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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Sarkar A, Koble MM, Frontiera RR. Plasmon-Driven Chemistry. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2025; 76:129-152. [PMID: 40258241 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-082423-031814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2025]
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Plasmonic nanomaterials are promising photocatalysts due to their large optical cross sections and facile generation of nanoscale hotspot regions. They have been used to drive a range of photochemical reactions, including H2 dissociation, CO2 reduction, and ammonia synthesis, offering an exciting approach to light-driven chemistry. Deepening our understanding of how energy can be controllably transferred from the plasmonic nanomaterial to proximal reactants should lead to improvements in the efficiency and selectivity in plasmonic photocatalysis. Here we provide a comprehensive overview of plasmonic properties and explore different energy partitioning pathways. We focus on the importance of mapping molecular potential energy landscapes to understand reactivity and describe recent advancements in spectroscopic techniques, such as ultrafast surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and electrochemistry, that can aid in understanding how plasmonic nanomaterials can be used to shape potential energy surfaces and modify chemical outcomes. Additionally, we explore innovative hybrid plasmonic nanostructures such as antenna-reactor complexes, plasmonic single-atom catalysts, plasmonic picocavities, and chiral plasmonic substrates, all of which show great promise in advancing the field of plasmon-driven chemistry.
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- Arghya Sarkar
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
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Sheehan CJ, Suo S, Jeon S, Zheng Y, Meng J, Zhao F, Yang Z, Xiao L, Venkatesan S, Metlay AS, Donley CL, Stach EA, Lian T, Mallouk TE. Electron Transfer Energetics in Photoelectrochemical CO 2 Reduction at Viologen Redox Polymer-Modified p-Si Electrodes. J Am Chem Soc 2025; 147:9629-9639. [PMID: 40050224 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2025]
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While redox polymer-mediated catalysis at silicon photoelectrodes has been studied since the 1980s, there have been few detailed studies of these materials in photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction. Here, we develop silicon photoelectrodes functionalized with a viologen-based polymer that mediates the formation of catalytic gold nanoparticles. The presence of gold was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and the nanoparticles were imaged with high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM). We probed the CO2 reduction process during bulk photoelectrolysis to find modest, yet consistent CO faradaic efficiencies across a range of applied potentials. Operando surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used to measure the Fermi levels of both the viologen polymer and the Au catalyst sites. The operando measurement of the Fermi levels of all three components of the photocathode provides a unified picture of the electron transfer process in the semiconductor-redox polymer-catalyst system. The redox polymer serves as the electron transfer mediator between the Si substrate and Au sites. In addition, the Au Fermi level equilibrates with the Fermi level of the viologen polymer, which in turn fixes the quasi-Fermi level of Au catalysts at the p-Si/redox polymer interface. This suggests a potential future direction of using redox polymers with tunable potentials to modulate the potential of metal cocatalysts and thus control the reaction selectivity.
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- Colton J Sheehan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S 34th St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S 34th St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S 34th St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S 34th St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory (CHANL), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S 34th St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Yi J, You EM, Hu R, Wu DY, Liu GK, Yang ZL, Zhang H, Gu Y, Wang YH, Wang X, Ma H, Yang Y, Liu JY, Fan FR, Zhan C, Tian JH, Qiao Y, Wang H, Luo SH, Meng ZD, Mao BW, Li JF, Ren B, Aizpurua J, Apkarian VA, Bartlett PN, Baumberg J, Bell SEJ, Brolo AG, Brus LE, Choo J, Cui L, Deckert V, Domke KF, Dong ZC, Duan S, Faulds K, Frontiera R, Halas N, Haynes C, Itoh T, Kneipp J, Kneipp K, Le Ru EC, Li ZP, Ling XY, Lipkowski J, Liz-Marzán LM, Nam JM, Nie S, Nordlander P, Ozaki Y, Panneerselvam R, Popp J, Russell AE, Schlücker S, Tian Y, Tong L, Xu H, Xu Y, Yang L, Yao J, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhao B, Zenobi R, Schatz GC, Graham D, Tian ZQ. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective. Chem Soc Rev 2025; 54:1453-1551. [PMID: 39715320 DOI: 10.1039/d4cs00883a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2024]
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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved significantly over fifty years into a powerful analytical technique. This review aims to achieve five main goals. (1) Providing a comprehensive history of SERS's discovery, its experimental and theoretical foundations, its connections to advances in nanoscience and plasmonics, and highlighting collective contributions of key pioneers. (2) Classifying four pivotal phases from the view of innovative methodologies in the fifty-year progression: initial development (mid-1970s to mid-1980s), downturn (mid-1980s to mid-1990s), nano-driven transformation (mid-1990s to mid-2010s), and recent boom (mid-2010s onwards). (3) Illuminating the entire journey and framework of SERS and its family members such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS) and highlighting the trajectory. (4) Emphasizing the importance of innovative methods to overcome developmental bottlenecks, thereby expanding the material, morphology, and molecule generalities to leverage SERS as a versatile technique for broad applications. (5) Extracting the invaluable spirit of groundbreaking discovery and perseverant innovations from the pioneers and trailblazers. These key inspirations include proactively embracing and leveraging emerging scientific technologies, fostering interdisciplinary cooperation to transform the impossible into reality, and persistently searching to break bottlenecks even during low-tide periods, as luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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- Jun Yi
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- School of Ocean Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Oceanic Information Perception and Intelligent Processing, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC, and Ikerbasque, Basque Agency for Research, and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, BT9 5AG Belfast, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8N 4Y3, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies (CAMTEC), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea
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- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Indoor Air and Health, Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, School of Physics and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Centre for Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Health and Medical Research Institute (HRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure (NPNS), Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore, 637371, Singapore
- School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Electrochemical Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- CIC biomaGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
- Cinbio, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1 Gakuen-Uegahara, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1330, Japan
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Physical Chemistry I, Department of Chemistry, and Center of Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) & Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Dongchuan Road 500, Shanghai 200241, P. R. China
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- Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
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- School of Physics and Technology and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education and School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
- Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China
- Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Technology, Institute of Health and Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, School of Physics and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, School of Physics and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Centre for Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Stefancu A, Aizpurua J, Alessandri I, Bald I, Baumberg JJ, Besteiro LV, Christopher P, Correa-Duarte M, de Nijs B, Demetriadou A, Frontiera RR, Fukushima T, Halas NJ, Jain PK, Kim ZH, Kurouski D, Lange H, Li JF, Liz-Marzán LM, Lucas IT, Meixner AJ, Murakoshi K, Nordlander P, Peveler WJ, Quesada-Cabrera R, Ringe E, Schatz GC, Schlücker S, Schultz ZD, Tan EX, Tian ZQ, Wang L, Weckhuysen BM, Xie W, Ling XY, Zhang J, Zhao Z, Zhou RY, Cortés E. Impact of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Catalysis. ACS NANO 2024; 18:29337-29379. [PMID: 39401392 PMCID: PMC11526435 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c06192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2024] [Revised: 09/18/2024] [Accepted: 09/20/2024] [Indexed: 10/30/2024]
Abstract
Catalysis stands as an indispensable cornerstone of modern society, underpinning the production of over 80% of manufactured goods and driving over 90% of industrial chemical processes. As the demand for more efficient and sustainable processes grows, better catalysts are needed. Understanding the working principles of catalysts is key, and over the last 50 years, surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) has become essential. Discovered in 1974, SERS has evolved into a mature and powerful analytical tool, transforming the way in which we detect molecules across disciplines. In catalysis, SERS has enabled insights into dynamic surface phenomena, facilitating the monitoring of the catalyst structure, adsorbate interactions, and reaction kinetics at very high spatial and temporal resolutions. This review explores the achievements as well as the future potential of SERS in the field of catalysis and energy conversion, thereby highlighting its role in advancing these critical areas of research.
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- Andrei Stefancu
- Nanoinstitute
Munich, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- IKERBASQUE,
Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Basque Country Spain
- Donostia
International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastián-Donostia, Basque Country Spain
- Department
of Electricity and Electronics, University
of the Basque Country, 20018 San Sebastián-Donostia, Basque Country Spain
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- INSTM,
UdR Brescia, Via Branze
38, Brescia 25123, Italy
- Department
of Information Engineering (DII), University
of Brescia, Via Branze
38, Brescia 25123, Italy
- INO−CNR, Via Branze 38, Brescia 25123, Italy
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24−25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Nanophotonics
Centre, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, England U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of California
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- CINBIO,
Universidade de Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain
- Biomedical
Research Networking Center for Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Southern Galicia Institute of Health Research (IISGS), Vigo 36310, Spain
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- Nanophotonics
Centre, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, England U.K.
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- School
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
- JST-PRESTO, Tokyo, 332-0012, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Technical
University of Munich (TUM) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Lichtenbergstrasse 2 a, D-85748, Garching, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Materials
Research Laboratory, University of Illinois
Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M
University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M
University, College
Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Institut
für Physik und Astronomie, Universität
Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- The Hamburg
Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- State
Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Energy, College
of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- IKERBASQUE,
Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Basque Country Spain
- CINBIO,
Universidade de Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain
- CIC biomaGUNE,
Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
- Centro
de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Bioingeniería,
Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
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- Nantes
Université, CNRS, IMN, F-44322 Nantes, France
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- Institute
of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University
of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Technical
University of Munich (TUM) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Lichtenbergstrasse 2 a, D-85748, Garching, Germany
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- School of
Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, University
of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, U.K.
- Department
of Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Studies and Natural Resources
(i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Campus de Tafira, Las Palmas de GC 35017, Spain
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- Department
of Materials Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Physical
Chemistry I and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- School of
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Nanyang, 637371, Singapore
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- State
Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Energy, College
of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center for Multi-media Environmental Catalysis
and Resource Utilization, East China University
of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237 P. R. China
- Key
Laboratory
for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory
of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize
Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular
Engineering, East China University of Science
and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237 P. R. China
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- Debye Institute
for Nanomaterials Science and Institute for Sustainable and Circular
Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Utrecht
University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory
of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable
Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Weijin Rd. 94, Tianjin 300071, China
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- School of
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Nanyang, 637371, Singapore
- School
of
Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan
University, Wuxi, 214122, People’s Republic
of China
- Lee Kong
Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological
University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore
- Institute
for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS), Nanyang Technological University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center for Multi-media Environmental Catalysis
and Resource Utilization, East China University
of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237 P. R. China
- Key
Laboratory
for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory
of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize
Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular
Engineering, East China University of Science
and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237 P. R. China
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- Key
Lab
of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and
Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
- Nano Science
and Technology Institute, University of
Science and Technology of China (USTC), Suzhou 215123, China
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- State
Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Energy, College
of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
| | - Emiliano Cortés
- Nanoinstitute
Munich, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, 80539 Munich, Germany
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Ostovar B, Lee SA, Mehmood A, Farrell K, Searles EK, Bourgeois B, Chiang WY, Misiura A, Gross N, Al-Zubeidi A, Dionne JA, Landes CF, Zanni M, Levine BG, Link S. The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadp3353. [PMID: 38968358 PMCID: PMC11225779 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp3353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
Abstract
The lack of a detailed mechanistic understanding for plasmon-mediated charge transfer at metal-semiconductor interfaces severely limits the design of efficient photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices. A major remaining question is the relative contribution from indirect transfer of hot electrons generated by plasmon decay in the metal to the semiconductor compared to direct metal-to-semiconductor interfacial charge transfer. Here, we demonstrate an overall electron transfer efficiency of 44 ± 3% from gold nanorods to titanium oxide shells when excited on resonance. We prove that half of it originates from direct interfacial charge transfer mediated specifically by exciting the plasmon. We are able to distinguish between direct and indirect pathways through multimodal frequency-resolved approach measuring the homogeneous plasmon linewidth by single-particle scattering spectroscopy and time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy with variable pump wavelengths. Our results signify that the direct plasmon-induced charge transfer pathway is a promising way to improve hot carrier extraction efficiency by circumventing metal intrinsic decay that results mainly in nonspecific heating.
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- Behnaz Ostovar
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Emily K. Searles
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Jennifer A. Dionne
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Christy F. Landes
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Martin Zanni
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
| | - Stephan Link
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Palmer LD, Lee W, Dong CL, Liu RS, Wu N, Cushing SK. Determining Quasi-Equilibrium Electron and Hole Distributions of Plasmonic Photocatalysts Using Photomodulated X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. ACS NANO 2024; 18:9344-9353. [PMID: 38498940 PMCID: PMC10993415 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 03/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
Abstract
Most photocatalytic and photovoltaic devices operate under broadband, constant illumination. Electron and hole dynamics in these devices, however, are usually measured by using ultrafast pulsed lasers in a narrow wavelength range. In this work, we use excited-state X-ray theory originally developed for transient X-ray experiments to study steady-state photomodulated X-ray spectra. We use this method to attempt to extract electron and hole distributions from spectra collected at a nontime-resolved synchrotron beamline. A set of plasmonic metal core-shell nanoparticles is designed as the control experiment because they can systematically isolate photothermal, hot electron, and thermalized electron-hole pairs in a TiO2 shell. Steady-state changes in the Ti L2,3 edge are measured with and without continuous-wave illumination of the nanoparticle's localized surface plasmon resonance. The results suggest that within error the quasi-equilibrium carrier distribution can be determined even from relatively noisy data with mixed excited-state phenomena. Just as importantly, the theoretical analysis of noisy data is used to provide guidelines for the beamline development of photomodulated steady-state spectroscopy.
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- Levi Daniel Palmer
- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, California, United States
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- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, California, United States
| | - Chung-Li Dong
- Department
of Physics, Tamkang University, New Taipei City 251301, Taiwan
| | - Ru-Shi Liu
- Department
of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
and Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Amherst 01003−9303, Massachusetts, United States
| | - Scott Kevin Cushing
- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, California, United States
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