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Illuminated oxides

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A photo-reversible metal–semiconductor phase transition can be induced in a nanocrystalline transition-metal oxide at room temperature by short-wavelength light irradiation, holding promise for the development of new optical storage media.

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the synthetic protocol for the fabrication of λ-Ti3O5 nanocrystals and their response to photo-irradiation.

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  1. Kosmas Prassides is in the Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. K.Prassides@durham.ac.uk,

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Prassides, K. Illuminated oxides. Nature Chem 2, 517–519 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.713

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