Additional Specific Channel of Photoactivation of Solid

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Additional Specific Channel of Photoactivation of Solid Semiconductors. A Revisit of the Thermo-/Photo-Stimulated Bleaching of Photoinduced Ti3+ Color Centers in Visible-Light-Active Photochromic Rutile Titania Vyacheslav N Kuznetsov, Nadezhda Glazkova, Ruslan V. Mikhaylov, and Nick Serpone J. Phys. Chem. C, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b08998 • Publication Date (Web): 17 Oct 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on October 20, 2017

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