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Tuning the Interfacial Energetics in WO 3 /WO 3 and WO 3 /TiO 2 Heterojunctions by Nanostructure Morphological Engineering

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Nowadays, semiconducting heterojunction-based devices exhibit the best photocatalytic performance, with transition metal oxides like tungsten (WO 3) and titanium (TiO 2) being the workhorse materials employed in these composites. Contrary to their bulk counterparts, WO 3 and TiO 2 nanostructures offer a huge versatility because their opto-electronic properties (i.e., energy levels) can be tuned by modifying their size, morphology, and composition, thus being, in principle, able to optimize the electron/hole injection barriers inside the device. However, this approach requires a deep fundamental knowledge of their structure-property relationships, extremely difficult to access from experiments. In this context, we employed state-of-art theoretical methods to determine the size and morphology dependency of the energetic alignment in WO 3 /WO 3 and TiO 2 /WO 3 nanostructure heterojunctions. Our results demonstrated that any type of alignment can be achieved by the proper choice of the nanostructures involved in the junction, while setting important rules for the design of efficient multi-component devices.
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hal-03871125 , version 1 (25-11-2022)

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Valentin Diez-Cabanes, Ángel Morales-García, Francesc Illas, Mariachiara Pastore. Tuning the Interfacial Energetics in WO 3 /WO 3 and WO 3 /TiO 2 Heterojunctions by Nanostructure Morphological Engineering. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, 12 (47), pp.11528-11533. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03227⟩. ⟨hal-03871125⟩
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