Dipole-induced band-gap reduction in an inorganic cage

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1934-1938

  Lv, Yaokang ^a,d   Cheng, Jun ^a,b   Steiner, Alexander ^c   Gan, Lihua ^d   Wright, Dominic S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

band gap; cobalt; polyoxometalates; structure elucidation; titanium

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP REDUCTION; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; BROAD APPLICATION; MOLECULAR DIPOLE MOMENT; PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIALS; POLYOXOMETALATES; STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION; TITANIA NANO-PARTICLES;

COBALT; DIPOLE MOMENT; DOPING (ADDITIVES); INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84893625628     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307721     Document Type: Article

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