Issue 14, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Visible light photoactivity from a bonding assembly of titanium oxide nanocrystals†

Hua Tong,ab   Naoto Umezawab  and  Jinhua Ye*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
E-mail: Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp

b Photocatalytic Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan

Abstract

TiO2 nanocrystals are assembled together by interfacial Ti–Ti electronic bonding. Such nanocrystal assemblies have a narrower band gap, greatly enhanced visible light absorption, and solar photocatalysis compared with individual nanocrystals.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC05699E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Dec 2010
Accepted
07 Feb 2011
First published
28 Feb 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 4219-4221

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Visible light photoactivity from a bonding assembly of titanium oxide nanocrystals

H. Tong, N. Umezawa and J. Ye, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4219 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05699E

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