Weakened Interfacial Hydrogen Bond Connectivity Drives Selective Photocatalytic Water Oxidation toward H2O2 at Water/Brookite-TiO2 Interface

G Ren, M Zhou, H Wang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The formation of H2O2 through the two-electron photocatalytic water oxidation reaction
(WOR) is significant but encounters the competition with the four-electron O2 evolution …

On the application of Marcus–Hush theory to small polaron chemical dynamics in oxides: its relationship to the Holstein model and the importance of lattice–orbital …

Z Wang, B Miglani, S Yuan, KH Bevan - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemical dynamics of small polaron hop** within oxides is often interpreted through
two-site variations on Marcus–Hush theory, while from a physics perspective small polaron …

Brookite, a sometimes under evaluated TiO 2 polymorph

M Manzoli, FS Freyria, N Blangetti, B Bonelli - RSC Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Some of the advancements concerning the study of phase-pure brookite and, especially,
brookite-containing TiO2 mixed phases are reviewed. Relevance is given to their …

Polaron-Based Electronic Conduction in Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conducting Lithium Garnets

CE Schwarz, RS Saravanan, NM Borodin… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recent research has demonstrated that doped lithium garnet compositions with mixed ionic–
electronic conducting (MIEC) properties can significantly enhance the performance of solid …

Design principles for grain boundaries in solid‐state lithium‐ion conductors

JA Quirk, JA Dawson - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium dendrite formation and insufficient ionic conductivity remain primary concerns for the
utilization of solid‐state batteries. Given that the interpretation of experimental results for …

[HTML][HTML] Nonempirical semilocal density functionals for correcting the self-interaction of polaronic states

S Falletta, A Pasquarello - Journal Of Applied Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Through the use of the piecewise-linearity condition of the total energy, we correct the self-
interaction for the study of polarons by constructing nonempirical functionals at the semilocal …

Polaron hop** through piecewise-linear functionals

S Falletta, A Pasquarello - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We use piecewise-linear functionals to study the polaron energy landscape and hop**
rates in β-Ga 2 O 3, which we adopt as an example of an anisotropic material hosting …

Investigation of the local photothermal effects by fabricating a CQDs/Au/TiO 2 photoelectrode in a PEC water splitting system

A Cao, L Sang, Z Yu, Y Zhao, X Wang… - Catalysis Science & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The high efficiency of the photoanode material is of great significance for
photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Herein, a CQDs/Au/TiO2 nanorod array …

Do Small Hole Polarons Form in Bulk Rutile TiO2?

S McBride, W Chen, T Cuk… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hole transport and localization through small polarons are essential to the performance of
TiO2 in photocatalysis applications. The existence of small hole polarons in bulk rutile TiO2 …

CO2 adsorption and activation on Ag (1 1 1) surfaces in the presence of surface charge density: A static gas phase DFT study

MG Sandoval, J Walia, MSE Houache… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
The CO 2 reduction reaction on Ag in the presence of surface plasmons are of strong
interest in photocatalysis. Here, two Density Functional Theory (DFT) approaches are …