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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Imperial College London : B - Metallurgy and Materials
The nature of electron lone pairs in BiVO4
Solar water splitting is widely considered as the Holy Grail of sustainable energy production. Recently it has been found that post-transition metal oxides (e.g. BiVO4) are candidate materials. Some of these oxides display distorted crystal structures so a correlation between structural phenomena and electronic structure is needed. This work highlights the nature of the interaction between the anion and post-transition cation in creating structural distortions in BiVO4, causing a narrowing of the band-gap and increased visible light absorption. A series including this work was highlighted by recent publication of a (front cover) article in Chemical Society Reviews by Payne.