Polarons in materials

C Franchini, M Reticcioli, M Setvin… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Polarons are quasiparticles that easily form in polarizable materials due to the coupling of
excess electrons or holes with ionic vibrations. These quasiparticles manifest themselves in …

Photocatalysis with Reduced TiO2: From Black TiO2 to Cocatalyst-Free Hydrogen Production

A Naldoni, M Altomare, G Zoppellaro, N Liu… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Black TiO2 nanomaterials have recently emerged as promising candidates for solar-driven
photocatalytic hydrogen production. Despite the great efforts to synthesize highly reduced …

Engineered disorder in CO2 photocatalysis

Z Li, C Mao, Q Pei, PN Duchesne, T He, M Xia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light harvesting, separation of charge carriers, and surface reactions are three fundamental
steps that are essential for an efficient photocatalyst. Here we show that these steps in the …

Surface Defect Engineering in Colored TiO2 Hollow Spheres Toward Efficient Photocatalysis

L Liccardo, M Bordin, PM Sheverdyaeva… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanostructured TiO2 is one of the best materials for photocatalysis, thanks to its high surface
area and surface reactivity, but its large energy bandgap (3.2 eV) hinders the use of the …

Charge Carrier Processes and Optical Properties in TiO2 and TiO2-Based Heterojunction Photocatalysts: A Review

S Lettieri, M Pavone, A Fioravanti, L Santamaria Amato… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photocatalysis based technologies have a key role in addressing important challenges of
the ecological transition, such as environment remediation and conversion of renewable …

Photocatalytic uphill conversion of natural gas beyond the limitation of thermal reaction systems

S Shoji, X Peng, A Yamaguchi, R Watanabe… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Dry reforming of methane is one of the key reactions to exploit natural gas feedstocks by
their catalytic conversion to synthesis gas (CH4+ CO2→ 2H2+ 2CO), which is used in the …

Oxygen Vacancies Promoted the Selective Photocatalytic Removal of NO with Blue TiO2 via Simultaneous Molecular Oxygen Activation and Photogenerated Hole …

H Shang, M Li, H Li, S Huang, C Mao… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor photocatalytic technology has great potential for the removal of dilute
gaseous NO in indoor and outdoor atmospheres but suffers from unsatisfactory NO-removal …

Band gap engineered TiO 2 nanoparticles for visible light induced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic studies

MM Khan, SA Ansari, D Pradhan, MO Ansari… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible light-active TiO2 (m-TiO2) nanoparticles were obtained by an electron beam
treatment of commercial TiO2 (p-TiO2) nanoparticles. The m-TiO2 nanoparticles exhibited a …

A Near Infrared Light Triggered Hydrogenated Black TiO2 for Cancer Photothermal Therapy

W Ren, Y Yan, L Zeng, Z Shi, A Gong… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
White TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used for cancer photodynamic therapy
based on their ultraviolet light–triggered properties. To date, biomedical applications using …

Direct View at Excess Electrons in Rutile and Anatase

M Setvin, C Franchini, X Hao, M Schmid, A Janotti… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
A combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and density functional
theory is used to characterize excess electrons in TiO 2 rutile and anatase, two prototypical …