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Niche Applications of MXene Materials in Photothermal Catalysis

Chemistry, 2023
MXene materials have found emerging applications as catalysts for chemical reactions due to their intriguing physical and chemical applications. In particular, their broad light response and strong photothermal conversion capabilities are likely to ...
Zhiyi Wu, Jiahui Shen, Chaoran Li, Chengcheng Zhang, Chunpeng Wu, Zimu Li, Xingda An, Le He   +7 more
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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 ...
Mascaretti Luca, Schirato Andrea, Fornasiero Paolo, Boltasseva Alexandra, Shalaev Vladimir M., Alabastri Alessandro, Naldoni Alberto   +6 more
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Superlattice Architectures for Advancing Photothermal Catalysis: Mechanisms and Applications [PDF]

Advanced Science
Photothermal catalysis has emerged as a powerful strategy to complement photocatalysis by harnessing full‐spectrum sunlight for the production of solar fuels and chemical upgrading.
Yuzhao Wu, Xiaoguang Duan, Haijun Chen, Hongqi Sun, Jinqiang Zhang, Shaobin Wang   +5 more
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Recent advancement and future challenges of photothermal catalysis for VOCs elimination: From catalyst design to applications

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
Yang Yang, Shenghao Zhao, Lifeng Cui, Fukun Bi, Yining Zhang, Ning Liu, Yuxin Wang, Fudong Liu, Chi He, Xiaodong Zhang   +9 more
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Photothermal Catalytic CO2 Conversion: Beyond Catalysis and Photocatalysis

Topics in Current Chemistry, 2023
AbstractIn recent years, the combination of both thermal and photochemical contributions has provided interesting opportunities for solar upgrading of catalytic processes. Photothermal catalysis works at the interface between purely photochemical processes, which involve the direct conversion of photon energy into chemical energy, and classical thermal
Fernando Fresno, Ana Iglesias-Juez, Juan Coronado   +2 more
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A feasible interlayer strategy for simultaneous light and heat management in photothermal catalysis [PDF]

iScience
Summary: 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 ...
Yi Xiao, Kai Feng, Graham Dawson, Valeri P. Tolstoy, Xingda An, Chaoran Li, Le He   +6 more
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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 ...
Xiaohu Mi, Tingting Zhang, Baobao Zhang, Min Ji, Bowen Kang, Chao Kang, Zhengkun Fu, Zhenglong Zhang, Hairong Zheng   +8 more
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Principles and applications of photothermal catalysis

Chem Catalysis, 2022
Summary Solar energy provides an alternative, sustainable, and clean source of energy to meet the global energy demands without extra carbon emissions. However, the utilization efficiency of sunlight via most traditional photocatalytic processes remains relatively low.
Dequan Xiao, Zhen Yin, Zhen Yin
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Engineering MXenes for Thermal and Photothermal Catalysis. [PDF]

Chem Rev
Heterogeneous catalysis relies on advanced, tunable materials offering structurally defined active sites and large accessible surface areas. Among the various material types, two-dimensional nanomaterials with high aspect ratios feature a high fraction of exposed atoms and thus efficient atom utilization. After more than a decade since the first report
Anouar A, Dhakshinamoorthy A, Xu F, Navalon S, Primo A, Yu J, Garcia H.   +6 more
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Optically selective catalyst design with minimized thermal emission for facilitating photothermal catalysis [PDF]

Nature Communications
Converting 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.
Zhengwei Yang, Zhen-Yu Wu, Zhexing Lin, Tianji Liu, Liping Ding, Wenbo Zhai, Zipeng Chen, Yi Jiang, Jinlei Li, Siyun Ren, Zhenhui Lin, Wangxi Liu, Jianyong Feng, Xing Zhang, Wei Li, Yi Yu, Bin Zhu, Feng Ding, Zhaosheng Li, Jia Zhu   +19 more
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