New perspectives in photocatalysis and near-surface chemistry:
catalysis meets plasmonics
CPLAS is £10 million programme grant funded by EPSRC and industry project partners for a six-year study to investigate light-driven energy-conversion at the nanoscale for stimulating chemical transformations. The project aims to advance a new field of research called “plasmo-catalysis”, which will take the light-harvesting capabilities of metallic nanostructures and transform this energy to control chemical reaction pathways in photocatalysis and photo-electrocatalysis. The research has the potential for wide-reaching applications in energy production, environmental clean-up & the pharmaceutical industry.
The 9th London Plasmonics Forum will take place on 7 June 2023 at King’s College London.
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Join the CPLAS Team:
Research Associate in Heterogeneous Photocatalysis using Plasmonic Nanoparticles
PhD studentship @ UCL – Computational Study of the Electronic Structure of High Temperature Superconductors
Recent Publications
Transformation-Optics-Designed Plasmonic Singularities for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Metal/ Semiconductor Interfaces
Nano Letters, 2023
Emission enhancement of erbium in a reverse nanofocusing waveguide
Nature communications, 2023
Multimode hybrid gold-silicon nanoantennas for tailored nanoscale optical confinement
Nanophotonics, 2023
Permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum
Nanoletters, 2023
Improved In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces Using Metasurface‐Driven Surface‐Enhanced IR Absorption Spectroscopy
Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
The CPLAS TEAM

Anatoly Zayats
King's College London
Principal Investigator

Stefan Maier
Imperial College London
Lead Co-Investigator

Richard Catlow
Catalysis Hub - Cardiff University
Lead Co-Investigator

Andy Beale
Catalysis Hub - UCL
Co-Investigator

Francesca Baletto
Co-Investigator

Wayne Dickson
King's College London
Co-Investigator

Simon Freakley
Catalysis Hub - Bath University
Co-Investigator

Chris Hardacre
Catalysis Hub - Manchester
Co-Investigator