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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 491927, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/491927 Research Article Electrospinning Preparation and Photocatalytic Activity of Porous TiO2 Nanofibers Shanhu Liu,1, 2 Baoshun Liu,1 Kazuya Nakata,1, 3 Tsuyoshi Ochiai,1, 3 Taketoshi Murakami,1 and Akira Fujishima1, 3 1 Photocatalyst Group, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, KSP East 412, 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213-0012, Japan 2 Institute of Environmental and Analytical Sciences, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China 3 Research Institute for Science and Technology, Energy and Environment, Photocatalyst Research Division, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Kazuya Nakata, pg-nakata@newkast.or.jp Received 14 January 2012; Accepted 20 April 2012 Academic Editor: Gajanan S. Bhat Copyright © 2012 Shanhu Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Porous TiO2 nanofibers were prepared via a facile electrospinning method. The carbon nanospheres were mixed with the ethanol solution containing both poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and titanium tetraisopropoxide for electrospinning; and subsequent calcination of as-spun nanofibers led to thermal decomposition of carbon nanospheres, leaving behind pores in the TiO2 nanofibers. The morphology and phase structure of the products were investigated with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffrac