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SUMMARY:Reaching Mode- and Enantiomer-Selective Catalysis with Polaritonic
 s - Christian Schäfer\, TU Vienna
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CONTACT:Isaac Parker
DESCRIPTION:Sufficient confinement of electromagnetic modes leads to a fre
 quent exchange of energy between molecules and light\, resulting in the cr
 eation of hybrid light-matter states\, called polaritons.\nHere\, I illust
 rate how spectral design with polaritons is utilized to reach mode- and en
 antiomer-selective catalysis.\nWe discuss that strong interaction between 
 optical modes and vibrational modes leads to changes in chemical rate cons
 tants [1\,2].\nTheoretical predictions from real-time quantum electrodynam
 ical density-functional theory and machine learning models are the first\n
 to find qualitative agreement with experiment and hint at a modification o
 f vibrational energy redistribution as possible mechanism.\nThe confined o
 ptical modes depend on the structure of the resonator\, i.e.\, control ove
 r chemistry is up to our design of the resonator.\nWe close our discussion
  with a perspective on how chiral resonators can imprint enantiomer select
 ivity [3\,4] and how plasmonic catalysis can be boosted six-fold [5].\n\n[
 1] C. Schäfer\, J. Flick\, E. Ronca\, P. Narang\, and A. Rubio\, Nature C
 ommunications\, (2022) 13:7817.\n[2] C. Schäfer\, J. Fojt\, E. Lindgren\,
  and P. Erhart\, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024\, 146\, 8\, 5402-5413.\n[3] C. Sch
 äfer\, D. Baranov\, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023\, 14\, 15\, 3777-3784.\n[4]
  D. Baranov\, C. Schäfer\, M. Gorkunov\, ACS Photonics 2023\, 10\, 8\, 24
 40-2455.\n[5] J. Fojt\, P. Erhart\, C. Schäfer\, Nano Lett. 2024\, 24\, 3
 8\, 11913–11920
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