{"id":181746,"date":"2024-01-31T00:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-plasmonic-catalysis-black-gold-and-solar-lights-renaissance"},"modified":"2024-01-31T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:25:51","slug":"a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-plasmonic-catalysis-black-gold-and-solar-lights-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-plasmonic-catalysis-black-gold-and-solar-lights-renaissance","title":{"rendered":"A breath of fresh air in plasmonic catalysis: Black gold and solar light\u2019s renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-plasmonic-catalysis-black-gold-and-solar-lights-renaissance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Polshettiwar\u2019s group at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai has developed a novel \u201cplasmonic reduction catalyst stable in air,\u201d defying the common instability of reduction catalysts in the presence of air. The catalyst merges platinum-doped ruthenium clusters, with \u201cplasmonic black gold.\u201d This black gold efficiently harvests visible light and generates numerous hot spots due to plasmonic coupling, enhancing its catalytic performance.<\/p>\n<p>The team describes their work in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-44954-4\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>What sets this catalyst apart is its remarkable performance in the semi-hydrogenation of acetylene, an important industrial process. In the presence of excess ethene, and using only <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a> illumination without any external heating, the catalyst achieved an ethene production rate of 320 mmol g<sup>\u22121<\/sup> h<sup>\u22121<\/sup> with around 90% selectivity. This efficiency surpasses all known plasmonic and traditional thermal catalysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Polshettiwar\u2019s group at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai has developed a novel \u201cplasmonic reduction catalyst stable in air,\u201d defying the common instability of reduction catalysts in the presence of air. The catalyst merges platinum-doped ruthenium clusters, with \u201cplasmonic black gold.\u201d This black gold efficiently harvests visible light and generates numerous hot spots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}