题目：

Cobalt Plasmonic Superstructures Enable Almost 100% Broadband Photon Efficient CO₂  Photocatalysis

作者：

Kai Feng^1†, Shenghua Wang^1†, Dake Zhang^1†, Lu Wang², Yingying Yu¹, Kun Feng¹, Zhao Li², Zhijie Zhu¹, Chaoran Li¹, Mujin Cai¹, Zhiyi Wu¹, Ning Kong¹, Binhang Yan³, Jun Zhong^1*, Xiaohong Zhang¹*, Geoffrey A. Ozin²*, and Le He¹*

单位：

¹Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University-Western University Centre for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Soochow University, 199 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, People’s Republic of China

²Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group, Solar Fuels Cluster, Departments of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada

³Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China

摘要：

The efficiency of heterogeneous photocatalysis for converting solar to chemical energy is low on a per photon basis mainly because of the difficulty of capturing and utilizing light across the entire solar spectral wavelength range. This challenge is addressed herein with a plasmonic superstructure, fashioned as an array of nanoscale needles comprising cobalt nanocrystals assembled within a sheath of porous silica grown on a fluorine tin oxide substrate. This plasmonic superstructure can strongly absorb sunlight through different mechanisms including enhanced plasmonic excitation by the hybridization of Co nanoparticles in close proximity, as well as inter- and intra-band transitions. With nearly 100% sunlight harvesting ability, it drives the photothermal hydrogenation of carbon dioxide with a 20-fold rate increase from the silica-supported cobalt catalyst. The present work bridges the gap between strong light-absorbing plasmonic superstructures with photothermal CO₂ catalysis toward the complete utilization of the solar energy.

影响因子：

25.809

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链接：

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202000014