The paper proposes best practices for ruling out photothermal artifacts in plasmonic chemistry and defines endergonic plasmonic photosynthesis as the definitive test of nonthermal plasmonic action.
Phenomenological Arrhenius Analyses in Plasmon-Enhanced Catalysis
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A range of chemical reactions occurring on the surfaces of metal nanoparticles exhibit enhanced rates under plasmonic excitation. Recent analyses based on Arrhenius law fitting have argued in favor of a purely photothermal mechanism of enhancement and suggested the lack of an involvement of hot electrons. However, there is a caveat as shown here: under certain scenarios, it is practically impossible to distinguish between a photochemical (non-thermal) effect of plasmonic excitation and a purely photothermal one using a phenomenological Arrhenius fitting of the reaction rates alone.
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Taking the Heat Off of Plasmonic Chemistry
The paper proposes best practices for ruling out photothermal artifacts in plasmonic chemistry and defines endergonic plasmonic photosynthesis as the definitive test of nonthermal plasmonic action.