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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages 894-899Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz2002698
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- Australian Research Council through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Queensland
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We demonstrated for the first time by large-scale ab initio calculations that a graphene/titania interface in the ground electronic state forms a charge-transfer complex due to the large difference of work functions between graphene and titania, leading to substantial hole doping in graphene. Interestingly, electrons in the upper valence band can be directly excited from graphene to the conduction band, that is, the 3d orbitals of titania, under visible light irradiation. This should yield well-separated electron hole pairs, with potentially high photocatalytic or photovoltaic performance in hybrid graphene and titania nanocomposites. Experimental wavelength-dependent photocurrent generation of the graphene/titania photoanode demonstrated noticeable visible light response and evidently verified our ab initio prediction.
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