Y. Lv, M. Yao, J.P. Holgado, T. Roth, A. Steiner, L. Gan, R.M. Lambert, D.S. Wright
RSC Advances, 3 (2013) 13659-13662
doi: 10.1039/C3RA41524D
Aqueous hydrolysis of a series of cerium-containing polyoxotitanium cages gives Ce(III)-doped TiO2[TiO2(Ce)] or TiO2-supported Ce(III)2Ti2O7, depending on the starting Ti:Ce ratio of the precursor. TiO2-supported Ce2Ti2O7 exhibits superior photocatalytic activity to the Ce-doped TiO2 materials and unusual broad-band absorption behaviour across the visible and near-infrared regions.
A low-temperature single-source route to an efficient broad-band cerium(III) photocatalyst using a bimetallic polyoxotitanium cage