Role of point defects on the reactivity of reconstructed anatase titanium dioxide (001) surface

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yang ^a   Sun, Huijuan ^a   Tan, Shijing ^a,b   Feng, Hao ^a   Cheng, Zhengwang ^a   Zhao, Jin ^a   Zhao, Aidi ^a   Wang, Bing ^a   Luo, Yi ^a,b   Yang, Jinlong ^a   Hou, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

REDUCTION; RUTILE; TITANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTIVITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84881320508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3214     Document Type: Article

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