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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 202519, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/202519 Research Article Synthesis of Core-Shell Fe O @SiO @TiO Microspheres and 3 4 2 2 Their Application as Recyclable Photocatalysts Zhenghua Wang, Ling Shen, and Shiyu Zhu Anhui Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Zhenghua Wang, zhwang@ Received 14 January 2012; Revised 2 March 2012; Accepted 2 March 2012 Academic Editor: Xuxu Wang Copyright © 2012 Zhenghua Wang 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. We report the fabrication of core-shell Fe O @SiO @TiO microspheres through a wet-chemical approach. The 3 4 2 2 Fe O @SiO @TiO microspheres possess both ferromagnetic and photocatalytic properties. The TiO nanoparticles on the 3 4 2 2 2 surfaces of microspheres can degrade organic dyes under the illumination of UV light. Furthermore, the microspheres are easily separated from the solution after the photocatalytic process due to the ferromagnetic Fe3 O4 core. The photocatalysts can be recycled for further use with slightly lower pho