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However, owing to the limited adsorption capacity of VOC adsorbents, such as activated carbon, a rapid breakthrough can occur, reducing the service life of the filter. Therefore, TiO2-coated zeolite (TiO2\/zeolite) was utilized as a photo-regenerative VOC adsorbent to increase the service life of VOC filters. In particular, with photoactive TiO2 forms on zeolite, efficient and repetitive photo-regeneration is attainable through the dissociation of VOC molecules by the photocatalytic reaction. We optimized the TiO2 coating amount to obtain TiO2\/zeolite particles with a high surface area (BET surface area &gt; 500 m2\/g) and high adsorption capacity. A VOC filter with an adsorption efficiency of 72.1% for formaldehyde was realized using TiO2\/zeolite as the adsorbent. Furthermore, the TiO2\/zeolite filter exhibits a photo-regeneration efficiency of &gt;90% for the initial two regeneration cycles using ultraviolet illumination, and &gt;60% up to five cycles. 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