10.4225/03/5a56dd5c8c6d6 KUN CHEN KUN CHEN Fabrication and Characterization of Ordered Plasmonic Metal Nanostructures for Sensing and Electrocatalytic Applications Monash University 2019 Metal nanostructures Inorganic Chemistry 2019-04-16 04:16:27 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Fabrication_and_Characterization_of_Ordered_Plasmonic_Metal_Nanostructures_for_Sensing_and_Electrocatalytic_Applications/5765598 Carbon dioxide is considered as the main source of global warming.This research focused on making novel metal nanostructures to electrocatalytically convert CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels to store excess electricity generated from renewable energies, which could not only provide valuable energy sources in a sustainable manner, but also help mitigate the global warming effect caused by rising atmospheric CO2 levels.