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Main Authors: Lyu, Ning, Edirisooriya, Anjalie, Liu, Dawei, Fusco, Zelio, Zhao, Shenyou, Fu, Lan, Beck, Fiona J., David, Christin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09293
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  • Phase change materials provide a powerful platform for dynamically modulating optical responses in nanophotonic systems. While plasmonic metasurfaces have been widely employed to enhance photocatalytic efficiency and promote particular light-driven reactions, active and dynamical control over reaction pathways within a single device remains challenging. Here, we report a phase-induced tunable metasurface that tailors photoexcited electron populations through mode hybridization, enabling selective control over the reactivity of light-driven chemical processes. By exploiting thermally induced refractive-index switching in a Sb2S3 cavity, the plasmonic resonance strength of Au nanodisks is actively tuned via cavity-plasmon hybridization. This reconfiguration modulates the product yield of methylene blue degradation by a factor of 2.4, suppressing to 0.45 in the crystalline phase and enhancing to 1.09 in the amorphous phase. Importantly, this reconfigurable platform enables dynamic control of the reaction yield using a single metasurface architecture under identical illumination conditions. Our approach establishes a dynamically programmable light-driven reaction platform capable of precisely manipulating reaction reactivity, offering new opportunities for selective photocatalysis in complex multibranch reaction systems.