Selected perovskite oxides: Characterization, preparation and photocatalytic properties—A review

E Grabowska - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016 - Elsevier
Perovskite-type oxides are a class of compounds with the general formula ABO 3. They are
a very important family of materials and exhibit properties suitable for numerous …

Band gaps from the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson approach: A systematic investigation

H Jiang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The semi-local Becke-Johnson (BJ) exchange-correlation potential and its modified form
proposed by Tran and Blaha (TB-mBJ) have attracted a lot of interest recently because of the …

Compositional design strategy for high performance ferroelectric oxides with perovskite structure

T Shi, G Li, J Zhu - Ceramics International, 2017 - Elsevier
In this review, the mechanism and contributions of the tolerance factor and hybridization
reactions on inducing ferroelectric displacements are discussed in ferroelectric oxides with …

Electron–Hole Recombination Controlled by Metal Doping Sites in NaTaO3 Photocatalysts

L An, H Onishi - ACS Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this research, sodium tantalate (NaTaO3) photocatalyst was doped with Sr2+ cations via
solid-state or hydrothermal reactions. NaTaO3–SrSr1/3Ta2/3O3 solid solutions that had …

Strain and Architecture-Tuned Reactivity in Ceria Nanostructures; Enhanced Catalytic Oxidation of CO to CO2

TXT Sayle, M Cantoni, UM Bhatta, SC Parker… - Chemistry of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Atomistic simulations reveal that the chemical reactivity of ceria nanorods is increased when
tensioned and reduced when compressed promising strain-tunable reactivity; the reactivity …

First-principles study of relative stability of rutile and anatase TiO 2 using the random phase approximation

ZH Cui, F Wu, H Jiang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The relative stability of TiO2 in the rutile and anatase structure is wrongly described by
density functional theory in various local, semilocal, or even hybrid functional …

An Efficient Strategy for Controlled Band Gap Engineering of KTaO3

B Modak, SK Ghosh - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this theoretical study, a systematic investigation has been carried out to explore the effect
of several anionic dopants (individually as well as in combination) on the electronic structure …

Self-Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species on Crystalline AgBiO3 for the Oxidative Remediation of Organic Pollutants

J Gong, CS Lee, EJ Kim, JH Kim, W Lee… - ACS applied materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this study, we synthesized a novel perovskite nanomaterial consisting of AgBiO3
nanoparticles (NPs) via an ion-exchange method for remediation of polluted environments …

Theoretical Investigation of Ta2O5, TaON, and Ta3N5: Electronic Band Structures and Absolute Band Edges

ZH Cui, H Jiang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Early transition metal oxides, nitrides, and oxynitrides have attracted a great deal of interest
because of their potential applications in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. In this work, a …

Converged quasiparticle energies for transition metal oxide perovskites

Z Ergönenc, B Kim, P Liu, G Kresse, C Franchini - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
The ab initio calculation of quasiparticle (QP) energies is a technically and computationally
challenging problem. In condensed matter physics, the most widely used approach to …