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Chemical Communications

PbO2: from semi-metal to transparent conducting oxide by defect chemistry control

Aron Walsh,*a   Aoife B. Kehoe,b   Douglas J. Temple,b   Graeme W. Watson*b  and  David O. Scanlon*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
E-mail: a.walsh@bath.ac.uk

b School of Chemistry and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
E-mail: watsong@tcd.ie

c University College London, Kathleen Lonsdale Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
E-mail: d.scanlon@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Lead dioxide has been studied for over 150 years as a component of the lead-acid battery. Based on first-principles calculations, we predict that by tuning the concentration of electrons in the material, through control of the defect chemistry, PbO2 can be rendered from black to optically transparent, thus opening up applications in the field of optoelectronics.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC35928F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Aug 2012
Accepted
22 Nov 2012
First published
23 Nov 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 448-450

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A. Walsh, A. B. Kehoe, D. J. Temple, G. W. Watson and D. O. Scanlon, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 448 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35928F

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