Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the harvesting and conversion of solar
energy. Among various technologies, the direct conversion of solar to chemical energy using …

Water is perhaps the most important and most pervasive chemical on our planet. The
influence of water permeates virtually all areas of biochemical, chemical and physical …

Photocatalysis based on optically active,“plasmonic” metal nanoparticles has emerged as a
promising approach to facilitate light-driven chemical conversions under far milder …

Catalysis plays a critical role in chemical conversion, energy production and pollution
mitigation. High activation barriers associated with rate-limiting elementary steps require …

The most important anthropogenic influences on climate are the emission of greenhouse
gases and changes in land use, such as urbanization and agriculture. But it has been …

This anthology, which is adapted from the Nobel Lecture, gives an overview of the field of
Femtochemistry from a personal perspective, encompassing our research at Caltech and …

Recent reports have shown that plasmonic nanostructures can be used to drive direct
photocatalysis with visible photons, where nanostructures act as the light absorber and the …

The field of heterogeneous photocatalysis has almost exclusively focused on semiconductor
photocatalysts. Herein, we show that plasmonic metallic nanostructures represent a new …

Over many millennia, humankind has thought to explore phenomena on an ever shorter time
scale. In this race against time, femtosecond resolution (1 fs= 10− 15 s) is the ultimate …

Electron-hole excitation and relaxation in the bulk, at interfaces, and surfaces of solid state
materials play a key role in a variety of physical and chemical phenomena that are important …