Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Manipulating spin polarization of titanium dioxide for efficient photocatalysis

  • Lun Pan,
  • Minhua Ai,
  • Chenyu Huang,
  • Li Yin,
  • Xiang Liu,
  • Rongrong Zhang,
  • Songbo Wang,
  • Zheng Jiang,
  • Xiangwen Zhang,
  • Ji-Jun Zou,
  • Wenbo Mi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14333-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photocatalyst activity depends significantly on the material’s electronic structures. Here, authors manipulate the electron spin polarization of TiO2 by tuning the concentration of Ti vacancies and show improved photocatalytic activities.