Plasmonic enhancement of molecular hydrogen dissociation on metallic magnesium nanoclusters

Oscar Douglas-Gallardo, Connor L. Box, Reinhard J. Maurer, Nanoscale 13, 11058-11068 (2021)

"The optical and catalytic properties of magnesium nanoclusters are characterized in the context of plasmonic catalysis. Our Time-Dependent DFTB and DFT simulations show that plasmonic enhancement of hydrogen dissociation and evolution on magnesium nanoclusters is viable."

Hot-electron effects during reactive scattering of H2 from Ag(111): assessing the sensitivity to initial conditions, coupling magnitude, and electronic temperature

Yaolong Zhang, Reinhard J. Maurer, Hua Guo and Bin Jiang, Faraday Discuss. 214, 105-121 (2019)

"Using molecular dynamics simulations with electronic friction, we systematically study the effect of hot electrons on measurable state-to-state scattering probabilities of molecular hydrogen from a (111) surface of silver. We find that dynamic scattering results and the ensuing energy loss are highly sensitive to the magnitude of electronic friction."

Electron-Hole-Pair-Induced Vibrational Energy Relaxation of Rhenium Catalysts on Gold Surfaces

Aimin Ge, Benjamin Rudshteyn, Jingyi Zhu, Reinhard J. Maurer, VIctor S. Batista, and Tianquan Lian, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 406-412 (2018)

"Using a combination of time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory, we study the vibrational relaxation mechanisms of a metal-adsorbed reduction catalyst."

Mode specific electronic friction in dissociative chemisorption on metal surfaces: H2 on Ag(111)

Reinhard J. Maurer, Bin Jiang, Hua Guo, John C. Tully, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 256001 (2017)

"Using nonadiabatic ab-initio molecular dynamics, we study how electronic friction affects mode-dependent energy loss and reaction outcomes during dissociative chemisorption of molecular Hydrogen."