Suljo Linic

TL;DR: Plasmon-enhanced water splitting on composite photocatalysts containing semiconductor and plasmonic-metal building blocks is focused on, and recently reported plasMon-mediated photocatallytic reactions on plAsmonic nanostructures of noble metals are discussed.

TL;DR: It is shown that plasmonic nanostructures of silver can concurrently use low-intensity visible light and thermal energy to drive catalytic oxidation reactions--such as ethylene epoxidation, CO oxidation, and NH₃ oxidation--at lower temperatures than their conventional counterparts that use only thermal stimulus.

TL;DR: The underlying physical mechanisms responsible for the observed chemical activity, and the issues that must be better understood to see progress in the field of plasmon-mediated photocatalysis are discussed.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that this issue can be alleviated significantly by combining a semiconductor photocatalyst with tailored plasmonic-metal nanostructures, and the interaction of localized electric fields with the neighboring semiconductor allows for the selective formation of electron/hole (e(-)/h(+)) pairs in the near-surface region of the semiconductor.

TL;DR: It is shown that plasmonic metallic nanostructures represent a new family of photocatalysts that exhibit fundamentally different behaviour compared with semiconductors, and that this new family could prove useful for many heterogeneous catalytic processes that cannot be activated using conventional thermal processes on metals or photoc atalytic processes on semiconductor.