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Shedding light on black titania

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Multiscale modelling provides atomic-level insights into how oxygen vacancy defect nucleation leads to the formation of the visible light photocatalyst black titania.

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Fig. 1: Defects lead to the formation of colour centres and charge carriers in TiO2.

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