Data for paper entitled "The role of Cu and film thickness on the photocatalytic activity of mesoporous spin coated TiO2 films"

<p>Most of the data is contained in an OriginPro 2023b file with each figure in a separate folder; folders are described below.<br></p><p>Parts of Figures 1 and 3 are data from photoelectron spectroscopy and are contained in VMS files with the ISO standard VAMAS format. They were created with the program CASAXPS version 2.3.24.</p><p><strong><em>OriginPro file:</em></strong></p><p>Figure 1a). Table of Y-columns: % stearic acid removed from the surface: X-Column Time/minutes.</p><p>Figure 2. Table of Y-columns: % stearic acid remaining at the surface: X-Column Time/seconds. Each Y column represents data from catalyst with different Cu wt%</p><p>Figure 3. b) Table of EXAFS data for 8 catalysts with different Cuwt% loading: X-column: X-ray energy/eV; Y column : absorption</p><p>Figure 3. c) Plot of derived proportion of CuO and Cu₂O % in catalyst samples. X column: Catalyst labels; Y-column %CuO present.</p><p>Figure 4: Plots Film thicknesses against deposition spin speed. Y column Film thickness/10^-6 m; X-column deposition spin speed in rpm.</p><p>Figure 5a Chart of calculated reaction Half lives (from data in Figure 1) for 5 different catalysts with different Cuwt% deposited at different spin speeds. Y column : Half life in seconds; x-column : deposition spin speed/rpm</p><p>Figure 5b Chart of calculated reaction Half lives (from data in Figure 1) for 5 different catalysts with different Cuwt% plotted against measured film thickness: Y column : Half life in seconds; x-column : measured film thicknesses.</p><p><strong><em>CASAXPS files:</em></strong></p><p><strong>Filename: XPS Dept Profile Non-Porous sample.vms & XPS Dept Profile Porous sample.vms</strong></p><p>Figure 1 b: Snapshot data of C(1s) spectra for two samples consisting of approximately 100 spectra for each: X-axis binding energy; y axis signal intensity (cps).</p><p><strong>File name: Cu state characterisation.vms</strong></p><p>Figure 3 a:Cu(sp) spectra for 4 samples: X-axis binding energy; y axis signal intensity (cps).</p><p>Research results based upon these data are published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114904</p>