研究目的
Investigating the design and synthesis of nanocatalosomes as bio-inspired bilayer-vesicular nanoreactors for harnessing unprecedented functionalities by using sustainable solar light.
研究成果
Inspired from the nature’s favorite bilayer-membrane-based vesicular structures, we have designed and synthesized metal-bilayer-based hollow-nanostructures: “nanocatalosomes”, as a new class of highly customizable and catalytically diverse nanoreactors having controllable bilayer-space. In diverse plasmonic-catalytic nanocatalosomes, bilayer shell having plenty of few-nm nanogaps/cavities within intershell nanospace is the key structural feature which endow controllable plasmonic coupling effect, and efficiently harness broad range of solar light to generate localized photothermal heating and plasmonic charge-carriers, highly useful for variety of catalytic reactions.
研究不足
The technical and application constraints of the experiments include the challenge of designing and synthesizing bio-inspired next-generation catalysts that can assimilate intricate morphological features of natural systems at few-nm scale and functionally diversify to carry out various thermodynamically challenging and industrially useful chemical reactions.
