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Understanding the Structural and Electronic Properties of Photoactive Tungsten Oxide Nanoparticles from Density Functional Theory and GW Approaches

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Tungsten trioxide (WO3)-derived nanostructures have emerged recently as feasible semiconductors for photocatalytic purposes due to their visible-light harvesting that overcomes the drawbacks presented by TiO2-derived nanoparticles (NPs). However, applications are still limited by the lack of fundamental knowledge at the nanoscale due to poor understanding of the physical processes that affect their photoactivity. To fill this gap, we report here a detailed computational study using a combined density functional theory (DFT)-GW scheme to investigate the electronic structure of realistic WO3 NPs containing up to 1680 atoms. Different phases and morphologies are considered to provide reliable structure–property relationships. Upon proper benchmark of our DFT-GW methodology, we use this highly accurate approach to establish relevant rules for the design of photoactive WO3 nanostructures by pointing out the most stable morphologies at the nanoscale and the appropriate size regime at which the photoactive efficiency is enhanced
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hal-03421131 , version 1 (09-11-2021)

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Valentin Diez-Cabanes, Ángel Morales-García, Francesc Illas, Mariachiara Pastore. Understanding the Structural and Electronic Properties of Photoactive Tungsten Oxide Nanoparticles from Density Functional Theory and GW Approaches. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021, 17 (6), pp.3462-3470. ⟨10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00293⟩. ⟨hal-03421131⟩
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