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The possibility to use highly saturated acetate bath to electrodeposit the mixed-phase materials containing Mo oxides has been investigated. The XRD characterization revealed that the as-deposited coatings are amorphous and consist only of MoO2 and MoO3 phases without traces of metallic Mo phase. This statement has been supported by XPS measurements, which reveal the presence of three different molybdenum oxidations states in electrodeposits: Mo4+, Mo5+ and Mo6+. It was found that the Mo6+ state prevails with 41% of total contribution, whilst Mo5+ and Mo4+ contribute to 28 and 31%, respectively. The deposits retain an amorphous structure up to 800°C; while molybdenum at this temperature is predominantly oxidized to the Mo6+ state (91%). These results, coupled to those of SEM and EDS, revealed that concentrated acetate bath could be used mainly for the formation of the mixed valence molybdenum oxide film unlike to the deposition of the metallic Mo phase. ; This study has partially received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778357 and from European Social Fund, project No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-08-0003 under grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania.

This research is funded by the European Social Fund according to the activity 'Improvement of researchers' qualification by implementing world-class R&D projects' of Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT- K-712, project "Investigation of the application of TiO2 and ZnO for the visible light assisted photocatalytical disinfection of the biologically contaminated water" (09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0175). The authors express gratitude for the S. Tuckute, M. Urbonavicius, G. Laukaitis and K. Bockute for their valuable input in current work. © 2019. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. ; Black colour TiO2 films were synthesized on amorphous fused silica substrates by DC magnetron sputtering technique with carbon powders placed at the working magnetron surface. Comprehensive sample analysis by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that the rutile/anatase heterostructure TiO2 films were successfully formed. Moreover, observation of Osingle bondTisingle bondC bonds confirmed that TiO2 phase was doped by carbon additives. Scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction were used to identify the effect of deposition time and TiO2 film thickness on the surface morphology, roughness and crystallite size. Results of electron spin resonance showed that oxygen vacancies were generated on the surface with trapped unpaired electrons. Optical analysis by UV–vis light spectrophotometer showed that TiO2 films with carbon additives improve its capability to absorb visible light. Accordingly, methylene blue bleaching experiments under UVsingle bondA and visible light irradiation showed that black colour TiO2 films are capable to decompose methylene blue solution at both UVsingle bondA and visible light irradiation. --- / / / --- This is the preprint of the following article: Sarunas Varnagiris, Arturs Medvids, Martynas Lelis, Darius Milcius, Andris Antuzevics, Black carbon-doped TiO2 films: Synthesis, characterization and photocatalysis, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry Volume 382, 1 September 2019, 111941 (2019), DOI 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.111941, which has been published at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1010603019303442. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Elsevier Terms and Conditions for Sharing and Self-Archiving. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. ; European Social Fund 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0175; Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia as the Center of Excellence has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No. 739508, project CAMART².