Page 1/21 Synthesis of Sodium Titanates and Their Use in the Photocatalytic Degradation of No Marco Antonio Cueto Bastida CIDETEQ: Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Electroquimica SC Yadira Guadalupe Maldonado CENAM: Centro Nacional de Metrologia Yolanda Reyes-Vidal CIDETEQ: Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Electroquimica SC Myriam Solís-López CINVESTAV IPN: Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional Eduardo Coutino-González CIO: Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC Fabricio Espejel Ayala ( fespejel@cideteq.mx ) CIDETEQ: Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Electroquimica SC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-9590 Research Article Keywords: hydrothermal synthesis, sodium titanate, photocatalysis, XPS analysis, NOx degradation Posted Date: October 21st, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-957160/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Environmental Science and Pollution Research on January 28th, 2022. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022- 18724-y.