Hollow Mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells for Enhanced Solar Vapor Generation

• Published in: Nano letters Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 2159 - 2167
• Main Authors: Zielinski, Marcin S, Choi, Jae-Woo, La Grange, Thomas, Modestino, Miguel, Hashemi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Pu, Ye, Birkhold, Susanne, Hubbell, Jeffrey A, Psaltis, Demetri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 13.04.2016
• Subjects: Bubbles; Dispersions; Nanoparticles; Nanostructure; Nucleation; Plasmonics; Sedimentation; Steam generation; thermal cavity; mesoporosity; plasmonics; steam nanobubble; Composite nanoshell; solar-vapor

In the past decade, nanomaterials have made their way into a variety of technologies in solar energy, enhancing the performance by taking advantage of the phenomena inherent to the nanoscale. Recent examples exploit plasmonic core/shell nanoparticles to achieve efficient direct steam generation, sho...