The conversion and storage of solar energy to chemical energy via artificial photosynthesis
holds significant potential for optimizing the energy situation and mitigating the global …

From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

Visible-light-driven photochemistry has continued to attract heightened interest due to its
capacity to efficiently harvest solar energy and its potential to solve the global energy crisis …

The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

The excitation of surface plasmons (SPs)—collective oscillation of conduction-band
electrons in nanostructures—can afford photon, electron and heat energy redistribution over …

Plasmon-assisted chemistry is the result of a complex interplay between electromagnetic
near fields, heat and charge transfer on the nanoscale. The disentanglement of their roles is …

Compared with conventional optical elements, 2D photonic metasurfaces, consisting of
arrays of antennas with subwavelength thickness (the 'meta-atoms'), enable the …

Metal nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers. The absorption processes create highly
excited electron–hole pairs, and recently there has been interest in harnessing these hot …

Harvesting nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic-metal nanostructures offers unique
opportunities for driving photochemical reactions at the nanoscale. Despite numerous …

Nanoscale localization of electromagnetic fields near metallic nanostructures underpins the
fundamentals and applications of plasmonics. The unavoidable energy loss from plasmon …