Wang, QingjieFan, JiajieZhang, ShilinYun, YifanZhang, JinhuaZhang, PengHu, JunhuaWang, LijieShao, Guosheng2018-01-152018-01-152018-01-15201710.1039/c7ra10347fhttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/143872WOS:000416827600044The fabrication of high-performance, low-cost photocatalysis materials, which absorb in the visible-light region, is of significance for their practical applications. A Ti2O@TiO2 (rutile) core-shell structure was fabricated through dehydrogenation and oxidation from TiH2. Thermal analysis indicates that a bimodal oxidation behavior accounts for the formation of a bi-phasic composite. The response of the composite under UV and visible light was measured by PL (photoluminescence) spectra and a photo-degradation test. A pronounced improvement in photo-degradation performance is attributed to the synergistic function of exciton separation of the core-shell structure and the visible light response of the Ti2Otext::journal::journal article::research article