期刊
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 24, 期 21, 页码 4252-4260出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm3032225
关键词
tungsten oxide clathrates; band gap; water oxidation
资金
- National Science Foundation [OCI-1053575]
- DOE [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- [NSF-CHE-0802907]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0802907] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Tungsten oxide (WO3) is a good photoanode material for oxidizing water, but it is not an efficient absorber of sunlight because of its large band gap (2.6 eV). Recently, stable clathrates of WO3 with interstitial N-2 molecules (xN(2)center dot WO3, x = 0.034-0.039) were synthesized, with a band gap of 1.8 eV. We studied the structural and electronic properties of these clathrates using ab initio calculations, and. we analyzed the physical origin of the gap reduction reported experimentally. We found that both structural changes caused by the insertion of N-2, and a small charge overlap. between N-2 and WO3, are responsible for the gap decrease. We compared the effect of N-2 intercalation to that of other closed shell species, in particular CO and rare gas atoms. Our calculations predicted that CO insertion lowers the band gap by about the same amount as N-2 but it leads to a change of both the oxide valence and conduction band positions, while the presence of N-2 only affects the conduction band minimum. We also predicted that, in the case of Xe, a strong hybridization between Xe Sp and O 2p states modifies the valence band edge of WO3, leading to a reduction of the band gap by approximately 1 eV.
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