Heterogenous Catalysis Mediated by Plasmon Heating
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- 作者：James R. Adleman ; David A. Boyd ; David G. Goodwin ; Demetri Psaltis
- 刊名：Nano Letters
- 出版年：2009
- 出版时间：December 9, 2009
- 年：2009
- 卷：9
- 期：12
- 页码：4417-4423
- 全文大小：215K
- 年卷期：v.9,no.12(December 9, 2009)
- ISSN：1530-6992
文摘
We introduce a new method for performing and miniaturizing many types of heterogeneous catalysis involving nanoparticles. The method makes use of the plasmon resonance present in nanoscale metal catalysts to provide the necessary heat of reaction when illuminated with a low-power laser. We demonstrate our approach by reforming a flowing, liquid mixture of ethanol and water over gold nanoparticle catalysts in a microfluidic channel. Plasmon heating of the nanoparticles provides not only the heat of reaction but the means to generate both water and ethanol vapor locally over the catalysts, which in turn allows the chip and the fluid lines to remain at room temperature. The measured products of the reaction, CO2, CO, and H2, are consistent with catalytic steam reforming of ethanol. The approach, which we refer to as plasmon-assisted catalysis, is general and can be used with a variety of endothermic catalytic processes involving nanoparticles.