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Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 125 (2012) 331–349 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Applied Catalysis B: Environmental j o u r n a l h o m epage: w w w. elsev /locate/apc atb Review A review on the visible light active titanium dioxide photocatalysts for environmental applications Miguel Pelaez a , Nicholas T. Nolan b , Suresh C. Pillai b , Michael K. Seery c , Polycarpos Falaras d , Athanassios G. Kontos d , Patrick S.M. Dunlop e , Jeremy W.J. Hamilton e , J.Anthony Byrne e , Kevin O’Shea f , Mohammad H. Entezarig , Dionysios D. Dionysiou a,∗ a Environmental Engineering and Science Program, School of Energy, Environmental, Biological, and Medical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012, USA b Centerfor Research in Engineering Surface Technology (CREST), FOCAS Institute, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin St, Dublin 8, Ireland c School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin St., Dublin 8, Ireland d Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR Demokritos, 15310Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece e Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre, School of Engineering, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT37 0QB, United Kingdom f Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 3319, USA g Department of Chemistry, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 91775, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Fujishima and Honda (1972) demonstrated the potential of titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) semiconductor mate- Received 28 March 2012 rials t