Theoretical insights into the surface physics and chemistry of redox-active oxides

R Rousseau, VA Glezakou, A Selloni - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Redox-active oxides find use in many applications, including catalysts, photovoltaic devices,
self-cleaning glasses, chemical sensors and electronic components. Their utility derives …

Sustainable organic synthesis promoted on titanium dioxide using coordinated water and renewable energies/resources

M Yamauchi, H Saito, T Sugimoto, S Mori… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand to replace conventional industrial systems that emit massive
amounts of CO 2 with lower-carbon emitting systems, and this has spurred research on the …

[HTML][HTML] Free energy of proton transfer at the water–TiO 2 interface from ab initio deep potential molecular dynamics

MFC Andrade, HY Ko, L Zhang, R Car, A Selloni - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
TiO2 is a widely used photocatalyst in science and technology and its interface with water is
important in fields ranging from geochemistry to biomedicine. Yet, it is still unclear whether …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic insight on water dissociation on pristine low-index TiO2 surfaces from machine learning molecular dynamics simulations

Z Zeng, F Wodaczek, K Liu, F Stein, J Hutter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Water adsorption and dissociation processes on pristine low-index TiO2 interfaces are
important but poorly understood outside the well-studied anatase (101) and rutile (110). To …

Flexibilities of wavelets as a computational basis set for large-scale electronic structure calculations

LE Ratcliff, W Dawson, G Fisicaro, D Caliste… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The BigDFT project was started in 2005 with the aim of testing the advantages of using a
Daubechies wavelet basis set for Kohn–Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) with …

pH Dependence of MgO, TiO2, and γ-Al2O3 Surface Chemistry from First Principles

G Di Liberto, F Maleki, G Pacchioni - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the pH-dependent surface chemistry of three relevant and widely used
oxides, MgO, TiO2, and γ-Al2O3, from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations at the level …

Structure, Polarization, and Sum Frequency Generation Spectrum of Interfacial Water on Anatase TiO2

MF Calegari Andrade, HY Ko, R Car… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The photocatalytic activity of TiO2 for water splitting has been known for decades, yet the
adsorption structure and hydrogen bonding of water at the interface with TiO2 have …

Understanding the nature and location of hydroxyl groups on hydrated titania nanoparticles

L Mino, Á Morales-García, ST Bromley, F Illas - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) are intensively studied and widely used due to their huge potential
in numerous applications involving their interaction with ultraviolet light (eg, photocatalysis …

Proton-coupled defects impact O–H bond dissociation free energies on metal oxide surfaces

RE Warburton, JM Mayer… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions on metal oxides require coupling
between proton transfer at the solid–liquid interface and electron transfer involving defects at …

[HTML][HTML] Morphology, Surface Structure and Water Adsorption Properties of TiO2 Nanoparticles: A Comparison of Different Commercial Samples

L Mino, C Negri, R Santalucia, G Cerrato, G Spoto… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water is a molecule always present in the reaction environment in photocatalytic and
biomedical applications of TiO2 and a better understanding of its interaction with the surface …