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(2005) the illumination of TiO2 under ultraviolet light changes the energy state of electrons from the valence band to the conduction band to give electron-hole pairs. The hole sat the TiO2 valence band can oxidize water or hydrolyze to produce hydroxyl groups. The hydroxyl radical is a powerful oxidizing agent that attacks organic compounds forming intermediates ( !. These intermediates react with hydroxyl radicals to produce the final product ("!.#ydroxyl radicals can also be consumed by inactive species. S. Bagwasi et. al. (2013) "hotocatalytic technology has been increasingly demonstrating prominent superiority for the decomposition of organic compounds and pollutants coming from many industries. $mong various semiconductor photocatalysts% TiO 2 has been proven to be the most important one due to series of merits such as good photocatalytic activity% good chemical and thermal stability for long term% nontoxicity% and low cost. Thus% it has been widely applied in environmental% optical% and electronic fields.

B. Palanisamy et. al. (2013! &ecently% many studies for improving TiO 2 photocatalytic efficiency have become hot topics' one approach is to dope some kind of transition metals into TiO2% forming doped photocatalyst% which would modify both physical and optical properties of TiO2 but the results are still unsatisfying. $nother one is to couple other oxides in order to achieve higher photocatalytic efficiency% such as (O )% *nO% +iO2% +nO2% ,e2O)% and -oO)% and these studies on this aspect are becoming more and more extensively.

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