Enhanced Solar Photothermal Catalysis over Solution Plasma Activated TiO2 [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2020 Colored wide‐bandgap semiconductor oxides with abundant mid‐gap states have long been regarded as promising visible light responsive photocatalysts. However, their catalytic activities are hampered by charge recombination at deep level defects, which ...
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Green Energy & Environment, 2023 Photothermal catalysis realizes the synergistic effect of solar energy and thermochemistry, which also has the potential to improve the reaction rate and optimize the selectivity. In this review, the research progress of photothermal catalytic removal of
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Challenges and prospects of plasmonic metasurfaces for photothermal catalysis [PDF]
Nanophotonics, 2022 Solar-thermal technologies for converting chemicals using thermochemistry require extreme light concentration. Exploiting plasmonic nanostructures can dramatically increase the reaction rates by providing more efficient solar-to-heat conversion by ...
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Photothermal Catalysis: An Emerging Green Approach to Upcycling Plastic Waste [PDF]
Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research, 2023 The increasingly massive accumulation of plastic waste is triggering a global pollution crisis, causing severe economic and health issues. As an effective strategy to realize synchronous environmental remediation and value‐added chemical production, the ...
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Binary Surfactant–Mediated Tunable Nanotip Growth on Gold Nanoparticles and Applications in Photothermal Catalysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Plasmonic nanostructures with sharp tips are widely used for optical signal enhancement because of their strong light-confining abilities. These structures have a wide range of potential applications, for example, in sensing, bioimaging, and surface ...
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A feasible interlayer strategy for simultaneous light and heat management in photothermal catalysis [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Photothermal conversion represents one crucial approach for solar energy harvesting and its exploitation as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels; however, an efficient, cost-effective, and generalized approach to enhance the photothermal ...
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Optically selective catalyst design with minimized thermal emission for facilitating photothermal catalysis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsConverting solar energy into fuels is pursued as an attractive route to reduce dependence on fossil fuel. In this context, photothermal catalysis is a very promising approach through converting photons into heat to drive catalytic reactions.
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Electron transfer-driven nanozymes integrated “colorimetric-photothermal” nanobody-immunosensing for tropomyosin inspection [PDF]
Journal of NanobiotechnologyBackground Tropomyosin (TM) is a major and highly stable allergen in crustaceans such as shrimp. The high stability of TM during food processing or gastrointestinal digestion impels the substantial allergenic risk to sensitive individuals, which ...
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Towards Photothermal Acid Catalysts Using Eco-Sustainable Sulfonated Carbon Nanoparticles—Part II: Thermal and Photothermal Catalysis of Biodiesel Synthesis [PDF]
CThe main goal of this work is to evaluate the ability of sulfonated carbon nanoparticles (SCNs) to induce photothermal catalysis of the biodiesel synthesis reaction (transesterification of natural triglycerides (TGs) with alcohols). Carbon nanoparticles (
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Plasmonic photothermal catalysis for solar-to-fuel conversion: current status and prospects. [PDF]
Chem Sci, 2021 Luo S, Ren X, Lin H, Song H, Ye J.
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