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ArticleNature communications2017

Plasmonic tunnel junctions for single-molecule redox chemistry.

Bart de Nijs, Felix Benz, Steven J Barrow, Daniel O Sigle, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Aniello Palma, Cloudy Carnegie, Marlous Kamp, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Prineha Narang and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Single-Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bart de NijsNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
Felix BenzNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
Steven J BarrowMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Daniel O SigleNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
Rohit ChikkaraddyNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
Aniello PalmaMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Cloudy CarnegieNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
Marlous KampMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Ravishankar SundararamanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,, 12180, NY, USA.
Prineha NarangJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge,, 02138, MA, USA.
Oren A SchermanMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Jeremy J BaumbergNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Ave, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK. jjb12@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9606-9488
University of Cambridge · GBHarvard University · USRensselaer Polytechnic Institute · US

Funding

European Research Council 320503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoparticles attached just above a flat metallic surface can trap optical fields in the nanoscale gap. This enables local spectroscopy of a few molecules within each coupled plasmonic hotspot, with near thousand-fold enhancement of the incident fields. As a result of non-radiative relaxation pathways, the plasmons in such sub-nanometre cavities generate hot charge carriers, which can catalyse chemical reactions or induce redox processes in molecules located within the plasmonic hotspots. Here, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy allows us to track these hot-electron-induced chemical reduction processes in a series of different aromatic molecules. We demonstrate that by increasing the tunnelling barrier height and the dephasing strength, a transition from coherent to hopping electron transport occurs, enabling observation of redox processes in real time at the single-molecule level.

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PMCPMC5714966
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