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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 767905, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/767905 Research Article Synthesis and Characterization of Mn–C–Codoped TiO2 Nanoparticles and Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyl Orange Dye under Sunlight Irradiation Wei Xin, Duanwei Zhu, Guanglong Liu, Yumei Hua, and Wenbing Zhou Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Ecological Environment Research, Centre for Microelement Research of Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China Correspondence should be addressed to Guanglong Liu, liugl0924@ Received 25 July 2012; Revised 5 September 2012; Accepted 5 September 2012 Academic Editor: Jiaguo Yu Copyright © 2012 Wei Xin 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. Novel visible-light-active Mn–C–TiO2 nanoparticles were synthesized by modified sol-gel method based on the self-assembly tech- nique using polyoxyethylenes orbitan monooleate (Tween 80) as template and carbon precursor and manganese acetate as man- ganese precursor. The samples were characterized by XRD, FTIR, UV-vis diffuse reflectance, XPS, and laser particle size analysis. The XRD results showed that Mn–C–TiO2 sample exhibited anatase phase and no other crystal phase was identified. High specific surface area, small crystallite size, and small particle size distribution could be obtained by manganese and carbon codoped and Mn–C–TiO exhibited greater red shift in absorption edge of samples in visible region than that of C–TiO and pure TiO . The 2