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Gap engineering of sandwich plasmonic gap nanostructures for boosting plasmon-enhanced electrocatalysis

Lu Cheng1,2, Fengxia Wu1, Yu Tian1, Xiali Lv1,3, Fenghua Li1, Guobao Xu1,3, Hsien-Yi Hsu4,5, Yongjun Zhang6, Wenxin Niu1,3( )
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
Yanshan Branch of Beijing Chemical Research Institute, Sinopec, Beijing 102500, China
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
School of Energy and Environment, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Shenzhen Research Institute of City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, China
Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials and State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Au@poly (o-phenylenediamine) (POPD)@Pd sandwich nanostructures were synthesized by in-situ reduction strategy. Under the optimal gap size of POPD, the plasma-enhanced ethanol oxidation reaction can enhance over 2.5 times. Meanwhile, a volcanic map was derived to describe the relationship between the catalytic activity and the gap size of plasmonic gap nanostructure (PGN) nano-catalyst.

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Plasmonic catalysis is emerging as a dynamic field in heterogeneous catalysis and holds great promise for the efficient utilization of solar energy. Central to the development of plasmonic catalysis is the design of efficient plasmonic nanocatalysts. In this report, plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) on the basis of Au@poly(o-phenylenediamine) (POPD)@Pd sandwich nanostructures are synthesized as plasmonic nanocatalysts by an in-situ reduction synthetic strategy, which allows for the precise engineering of the POPD gap size between plasmonic Au and catalytic Pd components. The introduction of conducting POPD nanogap in PGNs not only effectively enhances their light harvesting capability, but also provides an effective charge transfer channel for harnessing the photogenerated hot charge carriers. In this respect, distinct gap-dependent performances in plasmon-enhanced electrocatalysis of ethanol oxidation reactions (EOR) are demonstrated with the PGN nanocatalysts and over 2.5 folds of enhancement can be achieved. A volcano plot is derived to describe the relationship between the catalytic activities and gap size of the PGN nanocatalysts, which is well explained by the interplay of their light harvesting and charge transport capabilities. These results highlight the importance of gap engineering in PGNs for plasmonic catalysis and offer the promise of developing efficient plasmonic nanocatalysts for other heterogeneous catalytic reactions.

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plasmonic gap nanostructureselectrocatalysisethanol oxidation reactionslight harvestingcharge transport

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 7,
July 2023
Pages 8961-8969
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5620-3
Cite this article:
Cheng L, Wu F, Tian Y, et al. Gap engineering of sandwich plasmonic gap nanostructures for boosting plasmon-enhanced electrocatalysis. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 8961-8969. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5620-3
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Received: 19 January 2023
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Accepted: 26 February 2023
Published: 20 April 2023
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