TiO2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena

A Fujishima, X Zhang, DA Tryk - Surface science reports, 2008 - Elsevier
The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of
the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact …

Advanced nanoarchitectures for solar photocatalytic applications

A Kubacka, M Fernandez-Garcia, G Colon - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review Since they were first described in the scientific literature,
photoinduced processes have been studied with a view to develo** several industrially …

Characterisation of oxygen defects and nitrogen impurities in TiO2 photocatalysts using variable-temperature X-ray powder diffraction

C Foo, Y Li, K Lebedev, T Chen, S Day, C Tang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
TiO2-based powder materials have been widely studied as efficient photocatalysts for water
splitting due to their low cost, photo-responsivity, earthly abundance, chemical and thermal …

Theoretical Studies on Anatase and Less Common TiO2 Phases: Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanomaterials

F De Angelis, C Di Valentin, S Fantacci… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Driven by growing concerns for environmental and energy issues, interest in semiconductor-
based heterogeneous photocatalysis has increased considerably over the last decades …

A two-dimensional phase of TiO2 with a reduced bandgap

J Tao, T Luttrell, M Batzill - Nature chemistry, 2011 - nature.com
Titanium dioxide is the prototypical transition metal oxide photocatalyst. However, the larger
than 3 eV bandgap of common bulk phases of TiO2 limits its light absorption to UV light …

The Stability, Electronic Structure, and Optical Property of TiO2 Polymorphs

T Zhu, SP Gao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014 - ACS Publications
Enthalpies of nine TiO2 polymorphs under different pressures are presented to study the
relative stability of the TiO2 polymorphs. It is important to include the dispersion correction …

Catalytic activity of amine functionalized titanium dioxide nanoparticles in methanolysis of sodium borohydride for hydrogen generation

S Demirci, AK Sunol, N Sahiner - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) nanoparticles, Anatase (A-TiO 2), Rutile (R-TiO 2), and
Rutile-Anatase (RA-TiO 2) mixture were modified chemically with ethylene-diamine …

Multichannel multiple scattering calculation of -edge spectra of and : Importance of multiplet coupling and band structure

P Krüger - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We report a theoretical study on x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Ti-L 2, 3-edge of rutile
and anatase TiO 2 as well as SrTiO 3. Using the first-principles multichannel multiple …

Investigating the Energetic Ordering of Stable and Metastable TiO2 Polymorphs Using DFT+U and Hybrid Functionals

MT Curnan, JR Kitchin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
Prediction of transition metal oxide BO2 (B= Ti, V, etc.) polymorph energetic properties is
critical to tunable material design and identifying thermodynamically accessible structures …

Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation on Nanosized TiO2-II Stabilized by High-Pressure Torsion

H Razavi-Khosroshahi, K Edalati, M Hirayama… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic activity of pure TiO2 is limited to ultraviolet (UV) light due to the wide bandgap
of anatase and rutile phases. The bandgap of high-pressure phases of TiO2 can …