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Environmentally friendly soft chemical processes, including solvothermal/hydrothermal process and mechanochemical process, for the synthesis of mixed anion type visible-light induced photocatalysts are introduced in this review paper. Titania and strontium titanate based anion doped photocatalysts can be effectively prepared at such low-temperature as below 200 °C. Especially, the mechanochemical process is a useful method for the synthesis of various mixed ions doping functional materials at low temperatures. The mixed anion type photocatalytic compounds consisted of N/O, N/F/O, S/O, N/C/O, show excellent visible light absorption ability and photocatalytic activities, indicating the potential applications in environmental purifications. Full-spectra active long wavelength light induced photocatalyst, full-time active photocatalyst system and infrared radiation (IR) shielding multifunctional photocatalysts will be introduced also.
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Zhao, Z., Fan, J., Chang, H. et al. Recent progress on mixed-anion type visible-light induced photocatalysts. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 60, 1447–1457 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-016-9022-9
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