CONTENTS
Plasmonic Photocatalysis: Principles and Applications
CONTENTS
Chapter 1Introduction
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Chapter 2Electromagnetic Properties of Materials
2.1Electromagnetic properties of the materials
2.2Electromagnetic wave propagation
2.3The dielectric function of Drude model
2.4Dielectric function of DrudeLorentz model
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Chapter 3Fundamentals of Surface Plasmons
3.1Surface plasmon polaritons
3.1.1Properties of surface plasmon polaritons
3.1.2Excitation of surface plasmon polaritons
3.2Localized surface plasmons
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Chapter 4Surface Plasmon Relaxation Effects
4.1Energy distribution of free electrons
4.1.1Sommerfeld freeelectron model
4.1.2The momentum and energy of free electrons in
metal materials
4.1.3The statistical distribution of free electrons in
metallic materials
4.2Plasmoninduced hot electrons
4.3Thermal effect of surface plasmons
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Chapter 5Principles of PlasmonDriven Photocatalysis
5.1Local fieldeffectdriven photocatalysis
5.2Hotelectrondriven photocatalysis
5.2.1Indirect electron transfer
5.2.2Direct electron transfer
5.3Plasmonexciton codriven photocatalysis
5.4Thermaleffectdriven photocatalysis
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Chapter 6Measurement and Analysis of PlasmonDriven Photocatalysis
6.1Design of surface plasmon structures
6.2Measurement by chromatography and electron microscopy
6.3Analytical methods for Raman spectra
6.4Analytical methods of surfaceplasmonenhanced spectra
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Chapter 7PlasmonDriven Catalysis of Molecular Reactions
7.1Gas dissociation catalytic reactions
7.2Surface molecular catalytic reactions
7.3Singlemolecule catalytic reactions
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Chapter 8Water Decomposition and Phase Transition of PlasmonDriven
Photocatalysis
8.1Water splitting
8.2Seawater desalination
8.3Steam sterilization
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Chapter 9PlasmonDriven Catalysis of Material Growth
9.1Growth of metal structures
9.2Growth of polymers
9.3Growth of crystal
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Acknowledgements