Phillips Hutchison

Plasmon-Driven Charge Transfer Aids Selective Nonthermal Vibrational Excitation in Nitrobenzenethiol on Silver Nanoparticles: Insights from Embedded Correlated Wavefunction Calculations.

In plasmonic photocatalysis, a commonly invoked reaction enhancement mechanism is the excitation of a metal-to-molecule charge transfer state, resulting in transient-ion formation. Once accessed, a transient-ion state leads to changes in the molecular geometry that can leave the molecule in a highly vibrationally excit...