Impact of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy in catalysis

A Stefancu, J Aizpurua, I Alessandri, I Bald… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
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 …

Biomimetic chiral nanomaterials with selective catalysis activity

H Cao, E Yang, Y Kim, Y Zhao, W Ma - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral nanomaterials with unique chiral configurations and biocompatible ligands have
been booming over the past decade for their interesting chiroptical effect, unique catalytical …

Toward molecular chiral polaritons

DG Baranov, C Schäfer, MV Gorkunov - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coupling between light and material excitations underlies a wide range of optical
phenomena. Polaritons are eigenstates of a coupled system with a hybridized wave …

Investigating plasmonic catalysis kinetics on hot-spot engineered nanoantennae

L Nan, J Giráldez-Martínez, A Stefancu, L Zhu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Strong hot-spots can facilitate photocatalytic reactions potentially providing effective solar-to-
chemical energy conversion pathways. Although it is well-known that the local …

Two-dimensional chiral metasurfaces obtained by geometrically simple meta-atom rotations

D Gryb, FJ Wendisch, A Aigner, T Gölz, A Tittl… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional chiral metasurfaces seem to contradict Lord Kelvin's geometric definition
of chirality since they can be made to coincide by performing rotational operations …

Biopolymer photonics: From nature to nanotechnology

VV Vogler‐Neuling, M Saba, I Gunkel… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biopolymers offer vast potential for renewable and sustainable devices. While nature
mastered the use of biopolymers to create highly complex 3D structures and optimized their …

Circular differential photocurrent map** of hot electron response from individual plasmonic nanohelicoids

L Wang, J Zheng, K Wang, M Khan, N Hu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral plasmonic nanocrystals have recently attracted increasing attention in circular
polarization-dependent photocatalysis driven by hot carriers. While being concealed in …

[HTML][HTML] Inspired by nature: Bioinspired and biomimetic photocatalysts for biomedical applications

A Bigham, A Zarepour, M Safarkhani, YS Huh… - Nano Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The field of photocatalysis has witnessed a significant advancement in the development of
bioinspired and biomimetic photocatalysts for various biomedical applications, including …

Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticle Solutions by Circularly Polarized Light

M Ghalawat, D Feferman, LV Besteiro, W He… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Shape symmetry breaking in the formation of inorganic nanostructures is of significant
current interest. It was typically achieved through the growth of colloidal nanoparticles with …

Tuning geometric chirality in metallic and hybrid nanostructures by controlled nanoscale crystal symmetry breaking

H Liu, AE Vladár, PP Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding and controlling chirality in inorganic crystalline materials at the nanoscale is
crucial in elucidating fundamental chirality-dependent physical and chemical processes as …