DFT study of bare and dye-sensitized TiO2 clusters and nanocrystals

Structural and electronic properties of bare and dye-sensitized TiO2 clusters and nanoparticles with sizes of ?2 nm have been studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Starting from ...

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