Cerium-based UiO-66 metal–organic frameworks explored as efficient redox catalysts: titanium incorporation and generation of abundant oxygen vacancies

The recently developed UiO-66(Ce) was firstly endowed with greatly improved redox photocatalytic activity based on titanium incorporation, which for the first time induced the formation of oxygen vacancies in Ce-MOFs, and then promoted the generation of oxidative ˙OH/˙O2- and reductive electrons.