A series of single doped, co-doped and tri-doped TiO2 nanotubes with Cu, Ce and B have been successfully prepared by hydrothermal method assisted by cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB). The photoelectrochemical properties of as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmissions electron microscopy (TEM), UV-vis absorbance spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The doped TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) with different amounts of Cu, Ce and B were evaluated by the removal of nitride oxide under the irradiation of UV lamp to optimize the best doping concentration. The results show that Cu, Ce and B tri-doped TNTs exhibit the highest photocatalytic activity, which should be ascribed to the synergetic effect of narrowing the band-gap of TiO2, which greatly inhibits the recombination of electrons and holes.The possible mechanism of photocatalytic reaction was also proposed. 3 recombination of electron/holes pairs. In addition the C-N-codoping can decrease the ban-gap energy and promote the adsoption of visible light. Changlin Yu et al. [21] also reported that the Ag/TiO2-B nanosquares has the high photocatalytic performance which should be attributed to the synergistic effects of B doping that narrows the band gap and the SPR of silver nanoparticles contribute to the highest activity. Furthermore, the single F or Ce-doped TiO2 and the novel porous F, Ce-codoped TiO2 have shown good mesoporous structures and the F, Ce-codoped TiO2 exhibits much higher photocatalytic activity than pure and the single F or Ce-doped TiO2. It was attributed that F doping which could produce more hydroxyl radicals inhibited the recombination of the photoinduced electrons and holes and Ce doping cause the wavelength response range of TiO2 to the long wavelength region. [22] Compared with other nonmetals, the radius of the boron atom is very small and can site at an interstitial position, which replaces an O atom inducing some gap states close to the bottom of the conduction band, and thus leading to its visible light response activity.Furthermore, great efforts have been devoted to prohibit the recombination of the photo-generated electrons and holes pairs. Transition metals and rare earths were the most promising candidates because of the possible transition of d and f orbital electrons, which can effectively reduce the recombination rate of electron-hole pairs and improve photo quantum yield. Transition metals such as Fe [23] , W [24] , Ag [25] , Pt [26] , Cu [27] and Zn [28] etc. were doped, which can introduce new energy levels to narrow its band gap. Out of all transition metals, copper ions as dopant attracted special attention due to copper species including Cu2O and CuO can serve as the trap for charge 5 through a hydrothermal method, which was assisted by CTAB to modify the surface character of TiNTs to form mesopores on the shells [35] . The influence of Cu, Ce and B on the phy...