Increasing Solar Absorption for Photocatalysis with Black Hydrogenated Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1200448
• Publication Date: 2011-01-20T22:53:51Z
• Authors: Xiaobo Chen; Lei Liu; Peter Y. Yu; Samuel S. Mao
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

An amorphous surface layer on titantium dioxide nanoparticles creates electronic states that allow longer-wavelength photoexcitation.