Response to Comment on "Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis".

Zhou, Linan; Swearer, Dayne F; Robatjazi, Hossein; Alabastri, Alessandro; Christopher, Phillip; Carter, Emily A; Nordlander, Peter; Halas, Naomi J · Science · 2019

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Sivan <i>et al</i> claim that the methods used to distinguish thermal from hot carrier effects in our recent report are inaccurate and that our data can be explained by a purely thermal mechanism with a fixed activation energy. This conclusion is invalid, because they substantially misinterpret the emissivity of the photocatalyst and assume a linear intensity-dependent temperature in their model that is unrealistic.

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