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Record W4411217243 · doi:10.1021/acsami.5c01775

Effect of Lattice Interactions on the Structural Evolutions of Cu<sub>2</sub>O Thin Film Model Heterostructures during Solar Energy Conversion Reactions

2025· article· en· W4411217243 on OpenAlex
Zuolong Chen, Xiyang Wang, Josh Dembicky, Meng Zhang, Baizhou Zhang, Subhajit Jana, Tom Regier, Ning Chen, Beatriz D. Moreno, Zhan Zhang, Yimin A. Wu

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Bibliographic record

VenueACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Canadian institutionsCanadian Light Source (Canada)University of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of WaterlooCanada Foundation for InnovationOntario Research FoundationOffice of ScienceCanada First Research Excellence FundCanadian Light Source
KeywordsMaterials scienceHeterojunctionThin filmLattice (music)Engineering physicsThin film solar cellSolar energySolar cellSolar energy conversionCondensed matter physicsOptoelectronicsChemical physicsNanotechnologyPhysics

Abstract

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Metal oxide heterostructures, formed by interfacing different metal oxide crystals, are utilized in various fields. Such interfaces are typically constructed using different materials and synthesis methods, complicating the isolation of interface-specific effects when fundamental reaction processes. The present study strategically employs Cu 2 O thin films exhibiting two distinct domains formed by weak and strong thin film–substrate lattice interactions to model metal oxide heterostructures with different interfacial interactions. The crystalline and electronic structural evolutions of different domains and planes are studied during gas–solid interactions and photocatalytic energy conversions using three-dimensional (3D) reciprocal space mapping and near-ambient X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The results reveal that heterostructures with strong lattice interactions experience less pronounced changes in the crystalline and electronic structures during such reactions. The Cu 2 O {200} planes in both domains exhibit more pronounced crystalline distortions compared to the Cu 2 O {111} planes. This study introduces a novel approach to fundamentally studying metal oxide heterostructures and proposes design strategies for optimizing heterostructures used in energy harvesting and conversion applications.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it