Plasmonic Nanocavities Enable Self-Induced Electrostatic Catalysis

The potential of strong interactions between light and matter remains to be further explored within a chemical context. Towards this end herein we study the electromagnetic interaction between molecules and plasmonic nanocavities. By means of electronic structure calculations, we show that self-indu...

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Autores: Climent i Biescas, Claudia, Galego, Javier, García Vidal, Fco. José, Feist, Johannes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/688400
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/688400
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201901926
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Spin crossover
Self-induced catalysis
Plasmonic nanocavity
Nucleophilic substitution
Heterogeneous catalysis
Física
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Sumario:The potential of strong interactions between light and matter remains to be further explored within a chemical context. Towards this end herein we study the electromagnetic interaction between molecules and plasmonic nanocavities. By means of electronic structure calculations, we show that self-induced catalysis emerges without any external stimuli through the interaction of the molecular permanent and fluctuating dipole moments with the plasmonic cavity modes. We also exploit this scheme to modify the transition temperature T1/2 of spin-crossover complexes as an example of how strong light–matter interactions can ultimately be used to control a materials responses