Band alignment of rutile and anatase TiO2

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 798-801

  Scanlon, David O ^a   Dunnill, Charles W ^a   Buckeridge, John ^a   Shevlin, Stephen A ^a   Logsdail, Andrew J ^a   Woodley, Scott M ^a   Catlow, C Richard A ^a   Powell, Michael J ^a   Palgrave, Robert G ^a   Parkin, Ivan P ^a   Watson, Graeme W ^b   Keal, Thomas W ^c   Sherwood, Paul ^c   Walsh, Aron ^d   Sokol, Alexey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND ALIGNMENTS; HIGH ACTIVITY; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RUTILE AND ANATASE; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; X-RAY PHOTOEMISSIONS;

ALIGNMENT; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOLYSIS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE;

CATALYSIS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84883141002     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3697     Document Type: Article

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