Comment on “A ‘one pot’ gel combustion strategy towards Ti3+ self-doped ‘black’ anatase TiO2−x solar photocatalyst,” by S. G. Ullattil and P. Periyat, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 5854

V. V. Atuchin

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Comment on “A ‘one pot’ gel combustion strategy towards Ti³⁺ self-doped ‘black’ anatase TiO_2−x solar photocatalyst,” by S. G. Ullattil and P. Periyat, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 5854

V. V. Atuchin^abcd

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^a Laboratory of Optical Materials and Structures, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
E-mail: atuchin@isp.nsc.ru

^b Functional Electronics Laboratory, Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia

^c Laboratory of Semiconductor and Dielectric Materials, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

^d Institute of Chemistry, Tyumen State University, Tyumen 525003, Russia

Abstract

In this work, it is shown that the high concentration of Ti³⁺ in “black” anatase TiO_2−x, as claimed by Sanjay Gopal Ullattil et al. [Sanjay Gopal Ullattil et al., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 5854–5858], is inappropriate. Using the binding energy difference parameter ΔBE = BE(O 1s) − BE(Ti 2p_3/2) = 528.7 − 457.6 = 71.1 eV, the domination of the Ti⁴⁺ state in the considered compound is verified.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA06581C
Article type: Comment
Submitted: 02 Aug 2016
Accepted: 30 Nov 2016
First published: 01 Dec 2016

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