Xueming Yang

TL;DR: Details of the photochemistry of three important molecules (oxygen, water, methanol) on the model TiO2 surfaces are presented, in an attempt to unravel the relationship between charge/energy transfer and bond breaking/forming inTiO2 photocatalysis.

TL;DR: The highly sensitive H atom Rydberg tagging time-of-flight method is used to conduct a crossed molecular beam scattering study of the F + H2 → HF + H reaction with full quantum-state resolution, finding pronounced forward-scattered HF products in the v′ = 2 vibrational state.

TL;DR: This review has summarized recent progress in the photocatalytic chemistry of hydrogen, water, oxygen, carbon monoxide, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids on TiO2 surfaces and discussed how fundamental studies on well characterized single crystals using ultrahigh vacuum based surface science techniques can help to develop new photocatalysis models.

TL;DR: Theoretical calculations indicate that the high reverse barrier to C-D recombination and the facile desorption of CD(2)O make photocatalytic methanol dissociation on TiO(2)(110) proceed efficiently.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Rydberg tagging time-of-flight technique and by quasiclassical trajectory calculations to study photodissociation dynamics of H2O at 121.6 nm.