Review Article

Recent Developments in Environmental Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants: The Case of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles—A Review

Table 2

Band gap energies of some semiconductor photocatalysts [8, 52, 89].

PhotocatalystBand gap energy (eV)PhotocatalystBand gap energy (eV)

Si1.1SiC3.0
WSe21.2TiO2 rutile3.02
α-Fe2O32.2Fe2O33.1
CdS2.4TiO2 anatase3.2
NaBiO32.62ZnO3.2
V2O52.7SrTiO33.4
B2WO62.78SnO23.5
WO32.8ZnS3.7