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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 22, 期 28, 页码 16277-16285出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02584d
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- Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES)
Monoclinic bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) is a promising n-type semiconductor for applications in sunlight-driven water splitting. Several studies have shown that its photocatalytic activity is greatly enhanced by high concentrations of Mo and W dopants. In the present work, we performedab initiocalculations to assess the most favorable relative position between pairs of Mo dopants in BiVO4. Surprisingly, we verify that the lowest energy configuration for Mo(V)pairwise defects in BiVO(4)occurs on nearest-neighbor sites, despite the higher electrostatic repulsion and larger strain on the crystal lattice. Similar results were observed for W(V)defect pairs in W-doped BiVO4. We show that the origin of this effect lies in a favorable hybridization between the atomic orbitals of the impurities that is only verified when they are closest to each other, resulting in an enthalpy gain that overcomes the repulsive components of the pair formation energy. As a consequence, Mo and/or W doped BiVO(4)are likely to present donor-donor defect complexes, which is an outcome that can be applied in experimental approaches for improving the photocatalytic activity of these metal oxides.
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