Localized surface plasmon resonance for enhanced electrocatalysis
Electrocatalysis plays a vital role in energy conversion and storage in modern society. Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is a highly attractive approach to enhance the electrocatalytic activity and selectivity with solar energy. LSPR excitation can induce the transfer of hot electrons and...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 5; no. 21; pp. 127 - 1297 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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London
Royal Society of Chemistry
01.11.2021
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| Summary: | Electrocatalysis plays a vital role in energy conversion and storage in modern society. Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is a highly attractive approach to enhance the electrocatalytic activity and selectivity with solar energy. LSPR excitation can induce the transfer of hot electrons and holes, electromagnetic field enhancement, lattice heating, resonant energy transfer and scattering, in turn boosting a variety of electrocatalytic reactions. Although the LSPR-mediated electrocatalysis has been investigated, the underlying mechanism has not been well explained. Moreover, the efficiency is strongly dependent on the structure and composition of plasmonic metals. In this review, the currently proposed mechanisms for plasmon-mediated electrocatalysis are introduced and the preparation methods to design supported plasmonic nanostructures and related electrodes are summarized. In addition, we focus on the characterization strategies used for verifying and differentiating LSPR mechanisms involved at the electrochemical interface. Following that are highlights of representative examples of direct plasmonic metal-driven and indirect plasmon-enhanced electrocatalytic reactions. Finally, this review concludes with a discussion on the remaining challenges and future opportunities for coupling LSPR with electrocatalysis.
Incorporation of LSPR features into electrocatalysis shows unprecedented activities. This review summarizes the mechanisms, preparation and characterization strategies, as well as recent exciting progress in LSPR-mediated electrocatalysis. |
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| Bibliography: | 2 Rongrong Ji received her BS from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology. She is currently under the supervision of Prof. Jian Zhao for her Master's degree. Her main area of research is Cu-based nanomaterials for photo/thermal-catalytic organic transformations. Jian Zhao is a professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology. Prior to this, she conducted her postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University and Singapore University of Technology and Design after receiving her PhD from Queensland University of Technology in 2013. Her research area mainly focuses on photo/thermal catalytic organic synthesis with plasmonic nanostructures, and heterogeneous electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction and water splitting. Jinghong Li is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University, China. He received his BSc in 1991 from the University of Science and Technology of China and his PhD in 1996 from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include electroanalytical chemistry, bio-electrochemistry and sensors, physical electrochemistry and interfacial electrochemistry, electrochemical materials science, and nanoscopic electrochemistry. Song Xue is a professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology. Before entering Tianjin University of Technology in 2007, he worked at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. The focus of his research is on the design and synthesis organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells, hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells, and nanomaterials for the photochemical conversion of CO Bing Li received her BS from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology. She is currently under the supervision of Prof. Jian Zhao for her Master's degree. Her main area of research is TiO . nanomaterials for the degradation of organic dyes and Cu-bimetallic nanomaterials for photo/thermal-catalytic organic transformations. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1cs00237f |