Muwen Yang

TL;DR: Electrochemical atomic force microscopy tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (EC-AFM-TERS) was used for the first time to spatially resolve local heterogeneity in redox behavior on an electrode surface in situ and at the nanoscale, which is expected to have a crucial impact on understanding the role of nanoscales surface features in applications such as electrocatalysis.

TL;DR: A novel method for synthesizing and photopatterning colloidal crystals via light-responsive DNA via azobenzene-modified DNA is developed, and the size of the particles can be used to modulate the Tm window over which these structures are light- responsive.

TL;DR: Plasmonic nanostructures have been widely used in photochemical reactions to enhance reaction rates, decrease energy barriers, or change reaction pathways, but the detailed mechanisms of these plas...

TL;DR: The first tip-enhanced Raman excitation spectroscopy (TERES) experiment is performed and the results are used, both in ambient and aqueous media, in combination with electrodynamics simulations to explore the plasmonic response of a Au tip-Au substrate composite system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the reaction mechanism, cross sections, and product energy partitioning for the O + CO2 reaction, calculated using Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations with the quasiclassical trajectory (BOMD-QCT) method.