The photoreaction of TiO2 and Au/TiO2 single crystal and powder surfaces with organic adsorbates. Emphasis on hydrogen production from renewables

KA Connelly, H Idriss - Green Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
TiO2 and TiO2-based materials are prototypes for photo-catalytic reactions as they have
been shown for many decades to be active for total oxidation of hydrocarbons to clean the …

Modeling Excited States in TiO2 Nanoparticles: On the Accuracy of a TD-DFT Based Description

E Berardo, HS Hu, SA Shevlin… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the suitability of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT)
to describe vertical low-energy excitations in naked and hydrated titanium dioxide …

Detection and correction of delocalization errors for electron and hole polarons using density-corrected DFT

B Rana, MP Coons, JM Herbert - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Modeling polaron defects is an important aspect of computational materials science, but the
description of unpaired spins in density functional theory (DFT) often suffers from …

Photoreaction of ethanol on Au/TiO2 anatase: comparing the micro to nanoparticle size activities of the support for hydrogen production

MA Nadeem, M Murdoch, GIN Waterhouse… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The work presents the dark and photocatalytic reactions of ethanol over Au particles
deposited on TiO2 anatase nano (≤ 10nm) and micro (ca. 0.15 μm) particle catalysts. The …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on semiconducting oxide nanoparticles: oxide nature, size, solvent, and pH effects

P Tarakeshwar, D Finkelstein-Shapiro… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Semiconducting oxide nanoparticles have proven to be excellent in detecting extremely low-
concentrations of molecules through surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effects …

Modeling the Water Splitting Activity of a TiO2 Rutile Nanoparticle

E Berardo, MA Zwijnenburg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
We explore, from a theoretical perspective, the effect of particle size on the photocatalytic
water splitting activity of TiO2 rutile (nano) particles by a combination of explicit quantum …

Realistic Cluster Modeling of Electron Transport and Trap** in Solvated TiO2 Nanoparticles

J Zhang, TF Hughes, M Steigerwald… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have developed a cluster model of a TiO2 nanoparticle in the dye-sensitized solar cell
and used first-principles quantum chemistry, coupled with a continuum solvation model, to …

Describing Excited State Relaxation and Localization in TiO2 Nanoparticles Using TD-DFT

E Berardo, HS Hu, HJJ Van Dam… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the description of excited state relaxation in naked and hydrated TiO2
nanoparticles using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) with three …

Benchmarking the Fundamental Electronic Properties of small TiO2 Nanoclusters by GW and Coupled Cluster Theory Calculations

E Berardo, F Kaplan, K Bhaskaran-Nair… - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We study the vertical and adiabatic ionization potentials and electron affinities of bare and
hydroxylated TiO2 nanoclusters, as well as their fundamental gap and exciton binding …

Molecule-induced gradient electronic potential distribution on a polymeric photocatalyst surface and improved photocatalytic performance

Y Guo, F Kong, C Wang, S Chu, J Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A polymeric photocatalyst was synthesized by coupling p-nitrobenzoic acid (PNA) onto
graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). The as-synthesized polymeric photocatalyst (PNA–g …