First Principles Study on the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of NCQDs/TiO

Chao Luo, Jun Gao, Guoqing Gou, Kejun Jiang, Zhongyin Zhu

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chao LuoCRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., Tangshan 063000, China.

Jun GaoCRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., Tangshan 063000, China.

Guoqing GouKey Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.

Kejun JiangKey Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.ORCID 0009-0007-4123-7783

Zhongyin ZhuSouthwest Jiaotong University Engineering Training Center, Chengdu 610031, China.

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Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province 2025YFHZ0100

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Abstract

First-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were employed to investigate the binding energy, work function, electronic structure, and optical properties of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (NCQDs) loaded on the TiO

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electronic structurefirst principlesNCQDsoptical propertiesTiO2(101)

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PMID42513778

DOI10.3390/ma19143042

PMCPMC13412965

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