READ ME File For 'Observation of visible light activated photocatalytic degradation of stearic acid on thin films of tantalum oxynitride synthesized by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition ' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0854 ReadMe Author: GEOFFREY HYETT, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Samuel D. Cosham, Veronica Celorrio, Alexander N Kulak, and Geoffrey Hyett Observation of visible light activated photocatalytic degradation of stearic acid on thin films of tantalum oxynitride synthesized by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition Dalton Transactions PAPER DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT04638G This dataset contains: Excel spreadsheet of photocatalytic data, X-ray diffraction data and transmission spectra. Date of data collection: jan 2016 to jan 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence: CC BY Related projects: V. C. kindly thanks the UK Catalysis Hub for resources and support provided via the membership of the UK Catalysis Hub Consortium and funded by EPSRC (EPSRC grants EP/K014706/1 and EP/K014714/1). The authors wish to acknowledge the Diamond Light Source for provision of beamtime (SP15151). We also wish to thank the Leverhulme Trust for funding through RPG-2014-204. Date that the file was created: March, 2019