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Photoactive Semiconducting Oxides for Energy and Environment: Experimental and Theoretical Insights Malgorzata Makowska-Janusik , Abdel-Hadi Kassiba

Abstract This chapter reports experimental investigations and theoretical approaches devoted to analyze the electronic, optical, and vibrational properties occurring in semiconducting photoactive materials in their bulk form or as nanosized objects. An original cluster approach was developed to describe the physical features of nanoparticles and the impact of their surface on photoinduced charge transfer phenomena. Photovoltaic and photocatalysis are two major applications for both clean environment and sustainable sources of energy as well. In this context, semiconducting nanocrystals from defined oxide families have attracted increasing interest during the last decade for their promising potential in renewable energy applications because of their versatile and coupled optical and electronic properties. More specifically, the semiconductor oxides as titanium oxide and bismuth vanadate-based materials can be tailored in nanosized and mesoporous structures. The electronic and optical features may be modulated in large extents when dye molecules are used as sensitizing vectors enhancing the efficiency of solar cells, energy storage, and photocatalyst. These applications depend on the reactive surface area, morphology and nanostructuration, doping and sensitizing agents, as well as controlled vacancy rates acting on the charge transferpeculiarities. In parallel to experimental investigations dedicated to selected forms of photoactive semiconducting oxides, original theoretical approaches were developed to analyze the key features of the considered functional systems. Using an integrated approach associating theoretical models and numerical simulations, the influence of the size and morphology of nanoparticles on their electronic and optical properties was pointed out.

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The cluster approach methodology was developed to simulate the electronic properties of semiconducting nanocrystalline materials as isolated objects or functionalized by organic dye molecules. The construction of the system proceeds by the crystal structure frozen in the cluster core while the surface is modified according to the environmental interactions. Theoretically, it was proved that nanostructures exhibit patchwork properties coming from the bulk material including core crystal structure and from surface effects caused by environment. On the other hand, the role of doping of the considered structures by metallic elements was investigated on the photoactivity mechanism involved in nanoparticles. The nature of vacancies located close to the dopants plays a crucial role on the electronic and optical features in the photoactive materials. Thus, the theoretical approaches and the carried out numerical simulations contribute to draw quantitative insights of the physical properties of functional semiconducting oxides in agreement with relevant experimental analyses.

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About this Reference Work Entry Title Photoactive Semiconducting Oxides for Energy and Environment: Experimental and Theoretical Insights Reference Work Title Handbook of Computational Chemistry Pages pp 1-48 Copyright 2016 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6169-8_18-2 Online ISBN 978-94-007-6169-8 Publisher Springer Netherlands Copyright Holder Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Topics Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Nanotechnology Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Industry Sectors Engineering Oil, Gas & Geosciences Consumer Packaged Goods Editors Jerzy Leszczynski (1) Editor Affiliations 1. Jackson State University Authors Malgorzata Makowska-Janusik (2) Abdel-Hadi Kassiba (3) Author Affiliations

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