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Career Award Funds CO2 Photocatalysis Study

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HOUSTON, Texas, June 20, 2014 — Rice University professor Isabell Thomann has received a $400,000 Career Award from the National Science Foundation to study photocatalytic reactions that could reduce carbon dioxide emitted by power plants. Her five-year research project involves developing tunable femtosecond time-resolved Raman spectroscopy techniques to probe little-understood aspects of photochemical reactions. “It’s rare that a [chemical] reaction goes directly from A to B,” Thomann said. “Often there are a number of short-lived, intermediate chemicals that are produced in between. We...Read full article

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    Published: June 2014
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    plasmonics
    Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free electrons in a metal or semiconductor at the nanoscale. Specifically, plasmonics deals with the collective oscillations of these free electrons, known as surface plasmons, which can confine and manipulate light on the nanometer scale. Surface plasmons are formed when incident photons couple with the conduction electrons at the interface between a metal or semiconductor...
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