Challenges in temperature measurements in gas-phase photothermal catalysis

Luca Mascaretti completed his PhD in 2018 at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Afterwards, he has worked as a postdoc researcher at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). His research activity is related to titanium oxide/nitride-based nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion processes. Andrea Schirato is currently a physics PhD candidate across Politecnico di Milano and the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa) under the supervision of Profs. G. Della Valle and R. Proietti Zaccaria. His research activities focus on the theoretical study and numerical modeling of ultrafast nonlinear phenomena driven by hot carriers, including non-equilibrium electronic and phononic energy transfer in nanostructured materials and metasurfaces. Tiziano Montini is associate professor at the University of Trieste in Italy. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Trieste in 2006, followed by a postdoc fellowship. His research activity concerns on nanomaterials as catalysts for renewable energy production and environmental protection. Alessandro Alabastri is currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. He received his PhD in nanosciences in 2014 from the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Genoa. In 2015, he was visiting researcher in the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He worked on several aspects of light-to-heat conversion, photothermal effects in nanostructures, and heat recovery in light-powered thermofluidic devices. Alberto Naldoni is currently an associate professor at University of Turin, Italy. Since 2017, he is the co-leader of the photoelectrochemistry group at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic). He obtained his PhD in chemical sciences from University of Milan (2010). From 2014 to 2017, he was visiting research faculty at the Birck Nanotechnology Center of Purdue University. His group focuses on nanomaterials for plasmonics, photocatalysis, and photoelectrochemistry. Paolo Fornasiero is a professor at the University of Trieste in Italy. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Trieste in 1997, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Reading University (UK). His group currently focuses on research into nanomaterials for environmental and energy-related applications.