In this NJC paper, Jean-Marie Herrmann (Institute of Researches on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon, France) investigated the chromium-doping of titania to tentatively photo-sensitize titania in the visible region and demonstrated why this strategy has proven to be a disaster in terms of photocatalytic activity.
In this study, the author explained the photo-electrical behavior of a Cr3+-doped titania catalyst in comparison with pristine titania, the related strong inhibition of titania’s catalytic performances and generalized this detrimental effect to all kinds of cationic dopings, either of n-type and/or p-type.
Detrimental cationic doping of titania in photocatalysis: why chromium Cr3+-doping is a catastrophe for photocatalysis, both under UV- and visible irradiations Jean-Marie Herrmann New J. Chem., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/c2nj20914d
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