“…Compared to Rutile-H2 TiO 2 (characterized in our recent publication [34]), similarly, the broad band centered at 3400 cm −1 and the sharp band at 1630 cm −1 can be detected, which represent the stretching and bending vibrations of surface OH groups [46,47], and the small peak at 2357 cm −1 representing bonds containing carbon [46,48,49] can be attributed either to adsorbed CO 2 or residual contamination from the TiO 2 precursor. At 900 cm −1 a new peak was observed, which can be attributed either to free or complexed -OeO-vibrations [49,50] or the vibration of TieO bonds within the triangular peroxy titanyl group [48,51,52]. Most importantly, in case of pH3_55 sample, TieOeO stretching vibrations (representing peroxo groups at 667 cm -1 [44,49,53,54]) could be detected, in contrast with Rutile-H2 (and pH3_70) titania, where it was deduced, that the quantity of the peroxo groups was under the threshold of detection of the IR spectrometer and it was only observable by the more sensitive XPS measurements [34].…”