id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zs25x637558 Robert Douglas Neal Advances in Catalysis and Functional Surfaces Utilizing Plasmonic Noble Metal Nanomaterials 2022 .txt text/plain 398 14 21 The significant contributions I have made to the field of nanoplate fabrication are then presented where the main contributions are 1. The work presented in this dissertation focuses on two key areas of research, namely i) the use of 4-nitrophenol reduction as a model reaction for benchmarking the performance of metallic nanoparticle catalysts, especially with regards to developing best practices for catalytic benchmarking as well as developing a holistic mechanistic understanding of the reaction and ii) the development of advanced fabrication techniques towards the synthesis of periodic arrays of substrate-immobilized plasmonic gold hexagonal and triangular nanoplates. cache/zs25x637558.txt txt/zs25x637558.txt