Electrochemistry with plasmons

R Nixon, E Contreras, PK Jain - Trends in Chemistry, 2023 - cell.com
Plasmon-assisted electrochemistry offers a new approach to deploy light energy for
activating or powering electroconversions of utility for the manufacturing of chemicals and …

Non-noble metal and nonmetallic plasmonic nanomaterials with located surface plasmon resonance effects: Photocatalytic performance and applications

R Li, X Wang, M Chen - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photocatalysts with located surface plasmon resonance effects (LSPRs) have been studied
in recent years due to their superior light harvesting capacity and photocatalytic performance …

Magnesium nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering and plasmon-driven catalysis

A Ten, V Lomonosov, C Boukouvala, E Ringe - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanostructures of some metals can sustain localized surface plasmon resonances,
collective oscillations of free electrons excited by incident light. This effect results in …

Plasmonic magnesium nanoparticles decorated with palladium catalyze thermal and light-driven hydrogenation of acetylene

V Lomonosov, TMR Wayman, ER Hopper, YP Ivanov… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bimetallic Pd–Mg nanoparticles were synthesized by partial galvanic replacement of
plasmonic Mg nanoparticles, and their catalytic and photocatalytic properties in selective …

Study on the roughen process of branches of AuAg nanostars for the improved surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to detect crystal violet in fish

YL Li, J Zhu, GJ Weng, YN Liu, JJ Li… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The techniques used to precisely tune the morphologies of noble metal nanoparticles are of
vital importance as complex three-dimensional nanostructures can generate many “hot …

Seed-mediated synthesis of monodisperse plasmonic magnesium nanoparticles

V Lomonosov, ER Hopper, E Ringe - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We reduce di-n-butylmagnesium with arene (naphthalene, biphenyl, phenanthrene) radical
anions and dianions to obtain metallic, plasmonic Mg nanoparticles. Their size and shape …

Alternative Plasmonic Materials for Fluorescence Enhancement

S Athanasiou, OJF Martin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024 - ACS Publications
Noble metals such as gold and silver have been used extensively for a range of plasmonic
applications, including enhancing the fluorescence rate of a dye molecule, as evidenced by …

Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging of Plasmon-Driven Coupling of 4-Nitrobenzenethiol on Au-Decorated Magnesium Nanostructures

SJ Patil, V Lomonosov, E Ringe… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Magnesium nanoparticles (MgNPs) exhibit localized surface plasmon resonances across
the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared parts of electromagnetic spectrum and are attracting …

Bimetallic copper palladium nanorods: plasmonic properties and palladium content effects

A Ten, CA West, S Jeong, ER Hopper, Y Wang… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cu is an inexpensive alternative plasmonic metal with optical behaviour comparable to Au
but with much poorer environmental stability. Alloying with a more stable metal can improve …

Hot carrier distribution engineering by alloying: picking elements for the desired purposes

M Bubaš, J Sancho-Parramon - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metal alloys hold the promise of providing hot carrier generation distributions superior to
pure metals in applications such as sensing, catalysis, and solar energy harvesting …