Cerium-doped zirconium dioxide, a visible-light-sensitive photoactive material of third generation

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 447-451

  Gionco, Chiara ^a   Paganini, Maria C ^a   Giamello, Elio ^a   Burgess, Robertson ^b   Di Valentin, Cristiana ^b   Pacchioni, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

charge separation; DFT; EPR spectroscopy; third generation photoactive systems

Indexed keywords

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DFT; DOUBLE EXCITATIONS; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOACTIVE SYSTEMS; ZIRCONIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84893825309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz402731s     Document Type: Article

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