Controlling Localized Plasmons via an Atomistic Approach
Our paper entitled “Controlling Localized Plasmons via an Atomistic Approach: Attainment of Site-Selective Activation inside a Single Molecule” has been accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society as a communication. In this paper, multiple chemically equivalent reactive sites are selectively and precisely activated by carefully positioning the tip and bringing the tip extremely close to the molecule (atomistic approach), thereby achieving plasmonic nano-confinement at the tip apex. The illustration of site-selective activation probed by localized surface plasmons implies the realization of molecular-scale resolution for bond-selected plasmon-induced chemistry.
S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz, L. Li, X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 5, 2051-2055 (2022).