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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 135, 期 31, 页码 11429-11432出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja4036994
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资金
- European Project DYNamo [ERC-2010-AdG-267374]
- European Project CRONOS [280879-2 CRONOS CP-FP7]
- Grupos Consolidados UPV/EHU del Gobierno Vasco [IT-319-07]
- NNSFC [21003113, 21121003]
- MOST [2011CB921404]
- NSF [CHE-1213189]
- [FIS2010-21282-C02-01]
- [PIB2010US-00652]
- [RYC-2011-09582]
- [JAE DOC]
- [JCI-2010-08156]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1213189] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Photocatalytic activity depends on the optimal alignment of electronic levels at the molecule-semiconductor interface. Establishing the level alignment experimentally is complicated by the uncertain chemical identity of the surface species. We address the assignment of the occupied and empty electronic levels for the prototypical photocatalytic system consisting of methanol on a rutile TiO2(110) surface. Using many-body quasiparticle (QP) techniques, we show that the frontier levels measured in UV photoelectron and two-photon photoemission spectroscopy experiments can be assigned to molecularly chemisorbed methanol rather than its dissociated product, the methoxy species. We find that the highest occupied molecular orbital of the methoxy species is much closer to the valence band maximum, suggesting why it is more photocatalytically active than the methanol molecule. We develop a general semiquantitative model for predicting many-body QP energies based on the electronic screening within the bulk, molecular, or vacuum regions of the wave functions at molecule-semiconductor interfaces.
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