Describing excited state relaxation and localization in TiO2 nanoparticles using TD-DFT

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5538-5548

  Berardo, Enrico ^a   Hu, Han Shi ^b   Van Dam, Hubertus J J ^b   Shevlin, Stephen A ^a   Woodley, Scott M ^a   Kowalski, Karol ^b   Zwijnenburg, Martijn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84916918725     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500787x     Document Type: Article

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