Photocatalytic hydrogen production and pollutant degradation provided both great
opportunities and challenges in the field of sustainable energy and environmental science …

As an energy carrier, hydrogen has been extensively studied to satisfy the increasing
demand on green energy. Efficiently producing hydrogen from water under sunlight is one of …

Defects can greatly influence the properties of oxide materials; however, facile defect
engineering of oxides at room temperature remains challenging. The generation of defects …

The interaction of water with TiO2 is crucial to many of its practical applications, including
photocatalytic water splitting. Following the first demonstration of this phenomenon 40 years …

TiO2 is one of the most promising candidate materials for clean-energy generation and
environmental remediation. However, the larger-than 3.1 eV bandgap of perfectly crystalline …

In reduced TiO2, electronic transitions originating from the Ti3+-induced states in the band
gap are known to contribute to the photoabsorption, being in fact responsible for the …

As a prototypical photocatalyst, TiO 2 is a material of scientific and technological interest. In
photocatalysis and other applications, TiO 2 is often reduced, behaving as an n-type …

Abstract Different types of TiO 2–SiO 2 composites in the form of powder or films have been
reported as efficient photocatalysts for decomposition of organic compounds in liquid and …

Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) is regarded as an important prototype photocatalytic material for
several decades. The charge carrier kinetics determines the photocatalytic properties of TiO …

Polaron formation plays a major role in determining the structural, electrical, and chemical
properties of ionic crystals. Using a combination of first-principles calculations, scanning …