1. Bandgap Engineering of Titanium-Oxo Clusters: Labile Surface Sites Used for Ligand Substitution and Metal Incorporation.
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Liu, Jin-Xiu, Gao, Mei-Yan, Fang, Wei-Hui, Zhang, Lei, and Zhang, Jian
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BAND gaps , *TITANIUM oxides , *CLUSTER theory (Nuclear physics) , *LIGANDS (Chemistry) , *METAL ions - Abstract
Through the labile coordination sites of a robust phosphonate-stabilized titanium-oxo cluster, 14 O-donor ligands have been successfully introduced without changing the cluster core. The increasing electron-withdrawing effect of the organic species allows the gradual reduction of the bandgaps of the {Ti6} complexes. Transition-metal ions are then incorporated by the use of bifunctional O/N-donor ligands, organizing these {Ti6} clusters into polymeric structures. The coordination environments of the applied metal ions show significant influence on their visible-light adsorption. Both the above structural functionalizations also tune the photocatalytic H2 production activities of these clusters. This work provides a systematic bandgap engineering study of titanium-oxo clusters, which is important not only for their future photocatalytic applications, also for the better understanding of the structure-property relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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