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Electron and Hole Polarons at the BiVO4–Water Interface

  • 1. Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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We determine the transition levels of electron and hole polarons at the BiVO4–water interface through thermodynamic integration within a hybrid functional scheme, thereby accounting for the liquid nature of the water component. The electron polaron is found to be less stable at the interface than in the bulk by 0.18 eV, while for the hole polaron the binding energy increases by 0.20 eV when the charge localizes in the surface layer of BiVO4. These results indicate that interfacial effects on the polaron binding energy and charge distribution are sizeable and cannot trivially be inferred from bulk calculations.

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J. Wiktor, A. Pasquarello, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11, 18423-18426 (2019), doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b03566