Selected publications

• Begoña Puértolas, Miguel Comesaña‐Hermo, Lucas V Besteiro, Margarita Vázquez‐González, Miguel A Correa‐Duarte Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Ammonia Production via Plasmon‐Assisted Photocatalysis Adv. Ener. Mat. 12 2103909 2022 doi:10.1002/aenm.202103909
  
• Artur Movsesyan, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Sven Burger, Miguel A Correa‐Duarte, Lucas V Besteiro, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O Govorov Plasmonic Nanocrystals with Complex Shapes for Photocatalysis and Growth: Contrasting Anisotropic Hot‐Electron Generation with the Photothermal Effect Advanced Optical Materials 2102663 2022 doi:10.1002/adom.202102663
  
• Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Artur Movsesyan, Xiang-Tian Kong, Peng Yu, Lucas V Besteiro, Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Hiromi Okamoto, Joseph M Slocik, Miguel A Correa-Duarte, Miguel Comesaña-Hermo, Tim Liedl, Zhiming Wang, Gil Markovich, Sven Burger, Alexander O Govorov Chiral Bioinspired Plasmonics: A Paradigm Shift for Optical Activity and Photochemistry ACS Photonics 9 2219-2236 2022 doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00445
  
• Lucas V Besteiro, Artur Movsesyan, Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Seunghoon Lee, Emiliano Cortés, Miguel A Correa-Duarte, Zhiming M Wang, Alexander O Govorov Local Growth Mediated by Plasmonic Hot Carriers: Chirality from Achiral Nanocrystals Using Circularly Polarized Light Nano Lett. 21 10315-10324 2021 doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03503
  
• Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Lucas V Besteiro, Artur Movsesyan, Gil Markovich, Tim Liedl, Kevin Martens, Zhiming Wang, Miguel A Correa-Duarte, Alexander O Govorov Chiral Photomelting of DNA-Nanocrystal Assemblies Utilizing Plasmonic Photoheating Nano Lett. 21 7298-7308 2021 doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02479
  
• [Book chapter] Lucas V Besteiro, Xiang‐Tian Kong, Zhiming M Wang, Alexander Govorov Theory of Plasmonic Excitations: Fundamentals and Applications in Photocatalysis Plasmonic Catalysis: From Fundamentals to Applications 2021 doi: 10.1002/9783527826971
  
• Emiliano Cortés, Lucas V Besteiro, Alessandro Alabastri, Andrea Baldi, Giulia Tagliabue, Angela Demetriadou, Prineha Narang Challenges in Plasmonic Catalysis ACS Nano 14 16202 2020 doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08773
  
• Eva Yazmin Santiago, Lucas V Besteiro, Xiang-Tian Kong, Miguel A Correa-Duarte, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O Govorov Efficiency of Hot-Electron Generation in Plasmonic Nanocrystals with Complex Shapes: Surface-Induced Scattering, Hot Spots, and Interband Transitions ACS Photonics 7 2807 2020 doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01065
  
• Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Lucas V Besteiro, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O Govorov Temporal plasmonics: Fano and Rabi regimes in the time domain in metal nanostructures Nanophotonics 9 3587 2020 doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0229
  
• Eric Ashalley, Kingsley Acheampong, Lucas V Besteiro, Peng Yu, Arup Neogi, Alexander O Govorov, Zhiming M Wang Multitask deep-learning-based design of chiral plasmonic metamaterials Photonic Res. 8 1213 2020 doi: 10.1364/PRJ.388253
  
• Benjamin Klemmed, Lucas V Besteiro, Albrecht Benad, Maximilian Georgi, Zhiming Wang, Alexander Govorov, Alexander Eychmüller Hybrid Plasmonic–Aerogel Materials as Optical Superheaters with Engineered Resonances Angew. Chem. 132 1713 2020 doi: 10.1002/ange.201913022
  
• Alexandra Gellé, Tony Jin, Luis de la Garza, Gareth D. Price, Lucas V. Besteiro, Audrey Moores Applications of plasmon-enhanced nanocatalysis to organic transformations Chemical Reviews - accepted 120 986-1041 2019 doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00187
  
• Le Chang, Lucas V. Besteiro, Jiachen Sun, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Stephen K. Gray, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov Electronic Structure of the Plasmons in Metal Nanocrystals: Fundamental Limitations for the Energy Efficiency of Hot Electron Generation ACS Energy Letters 4 2552-2568 2019 doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01617
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Peng Yu, Zhiming Wang, Alexander W. Holleitner, Gregory V. Hartland, Gary P. Wiederrecht, Alexander O. Govorov The Fast and the Furious: Ultrafast Hot Electrons in Plasmonic Metastructures. Size and Structure Matter Nano Today 2019 doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2019.05.006
  
• Tianji Liu, Lucas V. Besteiro, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov Generation of Hot Electrons in Nanostructures incorporating Conventional and Unconventional Plasmonic Materials Faraday Discussions 2018 doi: 10.1039/C8FD00145F
  
• Riccardo Marin, Artiom Skripka, Lucas V. Besteiro, Antonio Benayas, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, Patricia Canton, Fiorenzo Vetrone Highly Efficient Copper Sulfide-Based Near-Infrared Photothermal Agents: Exploring the Limits of Macroscopic Heat Conversion Small 2018 doi: 10.1002/smll.201803282
  
• Peng Yu, Lucas V. Besteiro, Yongjun Huang, Lan Fu, Hark H. Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Gary P. Wiederrecht, Alexander O. Govorov, Zhiming Wang Broadband Metamaterial Absorber Adv. Opt. Mat. 2018 doi: 10.1002/adom.201800995
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhiming Wang, Federico Rosei, Alexander O. Govorov Plasmonic Glasses and Films Based on Alternative Inexpensive Materials for Blocking Infrared Radiation Nano Lett. 2018 doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00764
  
• Zhenhe Xu, Md Golam Kibria, Bandar AlOtaibi, Paul N. Duchesne, Lucas V. Besteiro, Yu Gao, Qingzhe Zhang, Zetian Mi, Peng Zhang, Alexander O. Govorov, Liqiang Mai, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma Towards enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen generation: Which is more important, alloy synergistic effect or plasmonic effect? Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 221 77 2018 doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.08.085
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhiming Wang, Gregory V. Hartland, Alexander O. Govorov Understanding Hot-Electron Generation and Plasmon Relaxation in Metal Nanocrystals: Quantum and Classical Mechanisms ACS Photonics 4 2759 2017 doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00751
  
• Alessandro Cecconello, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov, Itamar Wilner Chiroplasmonic DNA-Based Nanostructures Nature Reviews Materials 2 17039 2017 doi: 10.1038/natrevmats.2017.39
  
• Gregory V. Hartland, Lucas V. Besteiro, Paul Johns, Alexander O. Govorov What's so Hot about Electrons in Metal Nanoparticles? ACS Energy Letters 2 1641 2017 doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00333
  
• Eva-Maria Roller, Lucas V. Besteiro, Claudia Pupp, Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Alexander O. Govorov, Tim Liedl Hot spot-mediated non-dissipative and ultrafast plasmon passage Nature Phys. 13 761 2017 doi:10.1038/nphys4120
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Hui Zhang, Jerome Plain, Gil Markovich, Zhiming Wang, Alexander Govorov Aluminum Nanoparticles with Hot Spots for Plasmon-Induced Circular Dichroism of Chiral Molecules in the UV Spectral Interval Adv. Opt. Mater. 5 1700069 2017 doi:10.1002/adom.201700069
  
• Alberto Naldoni, Urcan Guler, Zhuoxian Wang, Marcello Marelli, Francesco Malara, Xiangeng Meng, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev Broadband Hot Electron Collection for Solar Water Splitting with Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Adv. Opt. Mater. 5 1601031 2017 doi:10.1002/adom.201601031
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Kivanc Gungor, Hilmi Volkan Demir, Alexander O. Govorov Simple and Complex Metafluids and Metastructures With Sharp Spectral Features in a Broad Extinction Spectrum: Particle-Particle Interactions and Testing the Limits of the Beer-Lambert Law J. Phys. Chem. C 121 2987 2017 doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11550
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov Amplified Generation of Hot Electrons and Quantum Surface Effects in Nanoparticle Dimers with Plasmonic Hot Spots J. Phys. Chem. C 120 19329 2016 doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b05968
  
• Wei Li, Zachary J. Coppens, Lucas V. Besteiro, Wenyi Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, Jason Valentine Circularly polarized light detection with hot electrons in chiral plasmonic metamaterials Nat. Commun. 6 8379 2015 doi:10.1038/ncomms9379
  
• Hayk Harutyunyan, Alex B.F. Martinson, Daniel Rosenmann, Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov, Gary P. Wiederrecht Anomalous ultrafast dynamics of hot plasmonic electrons in nanostructures with hot spots Nat. Nanotechnol. 10 770 2015 doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.165
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro. Thesis: Influencia de la dimensionalidad en las propiedades estructurales y electronicas de nanomateriales semiconductores: puntos cuanticos, nanohilos y nanotubos 2014 Thesis pdf.
  
• Lucas V. Besteiro, Luis Tortajada, J. Souto, L.J. Gallego, James R. Chelikowsky, M.M.G. Alemany Doping efficiency in n-type InP nanowires Phys. Rev. B 88 115310 2013 doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.115310