**Author details**

Mohamed Faycal Atitar1\*, Hamza Belhadj1 , Ralf Dillert1 and Detlef W. Bahnemann1,2

\*Address all correspondence to: bahnemann@iftc.uni-hannover.de

1 Institut fuer Technische Chemie, Leibniz UniversitaetHannover, Hannover, Germany

2 Laboratory of Photoactive Nanocomposite Materials, Department of Photonics, Faculty of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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