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Photothermal properties of Cu@polycarbonate composites with strong localized surface plasmon resonances

Fengyi Wang1,2,3, Jiangling He2, Junshan Hu2, Zhihui Chen2, Yumeng Shi1( ), Qing-Hua Xu2( )
SZU-NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science and Technology, International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Copper nanoparticles@polycarbonate composites were synthesized by a facile one-step solvothermal method with strong localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR). The composites have high photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) and photothermal stability and were modified on a scouring sponge as light absorption layer, exhibiting excellent interfacial solar evaporation performance.

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Copper is relatively low cost and highly abundant compared with the well-studied noble metals such as gold and silver. However, the poor plasmonic and high susceptibility towards oxidation limit the study of its optical properties and applications as well. Herein, copper nanoparticles@polycarbonate (Cu@PC) composites were prepared by using a facile one-step solvothermal method. The Cu@PC composites have strong localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR) due to that the PC shell can induce the particles to form many-particles system with different particle numbers, which not only lead to overlap and hybridize of the LSPR modes, but also shift the LSPR away from the interband transitions, and the PC layer also prevents the oxidation of Cu nanoparticles. The photothermal conversion efficiency of Cu@PC composites reaches 41.1% under 808 nm continuous wave (CW) laser irradiation which is higher than previously reported Cu nanomaterials that have been reported. Meanwhile, the composites also have high photothermal stability. Moreover, interfacial evaporator is prepared by assembling the Cu@PC composites on scouring sponge as light absorption layer which has > 92.8% absorption in entire solar spectrum range. Its seawater evaporation rate is 3.177 kg·m–2·h–1 with a Eevaporator/Ewater of 5.2. The high evaporation rate interfacial evaporator with low cost, simple, and scalable approach shows great application value in the field of photothermal evaporation.

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Cu nanoparticleslocalized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR)photothermalinterfacial evaporation

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 9,
September 2024
Pages 8513-8520
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-024-6805-0
Cite this article:
Wang F, He J, Hu J, et al. Photothermal properties of Cu@polycarbonate composites with strong localized surface plasmon resonances. Nano Research, 2024, 17(9): 8513-8520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6805-0
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Received: 17 April 2024
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