Covalent organic frameworks for energy conversion in photocatalysis

T He, Y Zhao - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intensifying energy crises and severe environmental issues have led to the discovery of
renewable energy sources, sustainable energy conversion, and storage technologies …

Functional nanomaterials for selective uranium recovery from seawater: Material design, extraction properties and mechanisms

Y Wu, Y **e, X Liu, Y Li, J Wang, Z Chen… - Coordination chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution and resource shortage are two major problems in the current world.
Nuclear energy, a green energy with high energy density, has attracted extensive attention …

Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Z Chen, J Wang, M Hao, Y **e, X Liu, H Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts.
However, their complicated structures lead to indeterminacy about photocatalytic active sites …

Covalent organic frameworks for direct photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water, air and sunlight

F Liu, P Zhou, Y Hou, H Tan, Y Liang, J Liang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Solar-driven photosynthesis is a sustainable process for the production of hydrogen
peroxide, the efficiency of which is plagued by side reactions. Metal-free covalent organic …

Fast growth of single-crystal covalent organic frameworks for laboratory x-ray diffraction

J Han, J Feng, J Kang, JM Chen, XY Du, SY Ding… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The imine-exchange strategy makes single-crystal growth of covalent organic frameworks
(COFs) with large size (> 15 microns) possible but is a time-consuming process (15 to 80 …

Engineering β-ketoamine covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic overall water splitting

Y Yang, X Chu, HY Zhang, R Zhang, YH Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging type of crystalline and porous
photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution, however, the overall water splitting activity of COFs is …

Imine and imine-derived linkages in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

C Qian, L Feng, WL Teo, J Liu, W Zhou… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are porous crystalline polymers that result from the
formation of covalent bonds between precisely assembled organic units. Linkage chemistry …

New advances in covalent network polymers via dynamic covalent chemistry

Z Lei, H Chen, S Huang, LJ Wayment, Q Xu… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent network polymers, as materials composed of atoms interconnected by covalent
bonds in a continuous network, are known for their thermal and chemical stability. Over the …

Application of MOFs and COFs for photocatalysis in CO2 reduction, H2 generation, and environmental treatment

Y Zhang, H Liu, F Gao, X Tan, Y Cai, B Hu, Q Huang… - EnergyChem, 2022 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has been widely studied because it can use inexhaustible solar energy as an
energy source while solving the problems of fossil fuel depletion and environmental …

Advanced porous adsorbents for radionuclides elimination

M Hao, Y Liu, W Wu, S Wang, X Yang, Z Chen, Z Tang… - EnergyChem, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of nuclear industry, effective management of nuclear waste and
oversight of nuclear fuel cycle are critical. Radionuclides such as uranium (U), plutonium …