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Photocatalytic decomposition of Rhodamine B on uranium-doped

mesoporous titanium dioxide

Yi Liu,a Blake Becker,b Brandon Burdine,c Ginger E. Sigmonb and Peter C. Burns* a b

a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.b Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.c Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556 USA.

*Corresponding author: Peter C. Burns, pcburns@nd.edu.

Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for RSC Advances.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017

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Fig. S1. TEM images of TiO2 (a) and (b), TiU1 (c) and (d), TiU2 (e) and (f), TiU3 (g) and (h).

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Fig. S2. (a) EDS spectrum of circled area in image (Fig. 4b) of TiU4 (b) STEM image, (c) EDS spectrum of selected point O1 in the STEM image, and (d) EDS

spectrum of selected point O2 in the STEM image of TiU4.

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450 460 470 480 490 500

TiU2

TiU1

TiU4

TiU3

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Wavelength (nm)

TiO2

Fig. S3. UV-Vis reflectance of TiO2 and TiUx. U4+ detected in the 450-500 nm range.