Solar Thermoplasmonic Nanofurnace for High-Temperature Heterogeneous Catalysis.Most of existing solar thermal technologies require highly concentrated solar power to operate in the temperature range 300-600 °C.  Also shown is the possibility to perform solar thermal CO oxidation at rates of 16 mol h-1 m-2 and with a solar-to-heat thermoplasmonic efficiency of 63%.  Access to scalable, cost-effective refractory plasmonic nanofurnaces opens the way to the development of modular solar thermal devices for sustainable catalytic processes.
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