The role of heat generation and fluid flow in plasmon-enhanced reduction-oxidation reactions
arXiv:2102.04783 · doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00113
Abstract
Recently, we have shown that thermal effects play a crucial role in speeding up the rate of bond-dissociation reactions. This was done by applying a simple temperature-shifted Arrhenius Law to the experimental data, corroborated with detailed account of the heat diffusion occurring within the relevant samples and identification of errors in the temperature measurements. Here, we provide three important extensions of our previous studies. First, we analyze thermal effects in reduction-oxidation (redox) reactions, where charge transfer is an integral part of the reaction. Second, we analyze not only the spatial distribution of the temperature, but also its temporal dynamics. Third, we also model the fluid convection and stirring. An analysis of two exemplary experimental studies allows us to show that thermal effects can explain the experimental data in one of experiments (Baumberg and coworkers), but not in the other (Jain and coworkers), showing that redox reactions are not necessarily driven by non-thermal charge carriers.
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