AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition
    Surface Science Tuesday Sessions
       Session SS+AS+EN+NS-TuM

Invited Paper SS+AS+EN+NS-TuM3
Chemical Reaction on Photo-excited Plasmonic Nanostructures

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 8:40 am, Room 112

Session: Nanostructures, Nanoplasmonics and Surface Reactions
Presenter: Sulio Linic, University of Michigan
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We will also show that plasmonic silver nanoparticles, optically excited with low intensity visible light, exhibit direct photo-catalytic activity in a number of oxidation reactions.1 We will discuss underlying mechanisms associated with these phenomena and predictive models that can capture the outcome of chemical transformations on these materials.2,3,4 We propose that this new family of plasmonic metal photo-catalysts could prove useful for many heterogeneous catalytic processes that cannot be activated using conventional thermal processes on metals or photo-catalytic processes on semiconductors. I will show an example of such a process. 5

1. D. B. Ingram, S. Linic, JACS, 133, 5202, 2011

2. Suljo Linic, Phillip Christopher and David B., Nature Materials, 10, 911, 2011.

3. Ingram P. Christopher, H. Xin, S. Linic, Nature Chemistry, 3, 467, 2011.

4. P. Christopher, H. Xin, M. Andiappan, S. Linic, Nature Materials, 11, 1044, 2012.

5. M. Andiappan, J. Zhang, S. Linic, Science, 339, 1590, 2013