Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion

T Banerjee, F Podjaski, J Kröger, BP Biswal… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Solar-to-chemical energy conversion for the generation of high-energy chemicals is one of
the most viable solutions to the quest for sustainable energy resources. Although long …

Advances in conjugated microporous polymers

JSM Lee, AI Cooper - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are a unique class of materials that combine
extended π-conjugation with a permanently microporous skeleton. Since their discovery in …

Photocatalytic sacrificial H2 evolution dominated by micropore-confined exciton transfer in hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks

Q Zhou, Y Guo, Y Zhu - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Organic semiconductors are attractive photocatalysts, but their quantum yields are limited by
the transfer of photogenerated charges to the surface. A promising strategy for low-loss …

Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

J Kosco, S Gonzalez-Carrero, CT Howells, T Fei… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Organic semiconductor photocatalysts for the production of solar fuels are attractive as they
can be synthetically tuned to absorb visible light while simultaneously retaining suitable …

Linear conjugated polymers for solar-driven hydrogen peroxide production: the importance of catalyst stability

L Liu, MY Gao, H Yang, X Wang, X Li… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the most important industrial oxidants. In principle,
photocatalytic H2O2 synthesis from oxygen and H2O using sunlight could provide a cleaner …

Photocatalytic Z‐Scheme Overall Water Splitting: Recent Advances in Theory and Experiments

J Abdul Nasir, A Munir, N Ahmad, T Haq… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic water splitting is considered one of the most important and appealing
approaches for the production of green H2 to address the global energy demand. The …

Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts

Y Wang, A Vogel, M Sachs, RS Sprick, L Wilbraham… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The use of hydrogen as a fuel, when generated from water using semiconductor
photocatalysts and driven by sunlight, is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Polymeric …

Metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

MZ Rahman, MG Kibria, CB Mullins - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review focuses on the discussion of the latest progress and remaining challenges in
selected metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen production. The scope of this review is …

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles

J Kosco, M Bidwell, H Cha, T Martin, CT Howells… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Photocatalysts formed from a single organic semiconductor typically suffer from inefficient
intrinsic charge generation, which leads to low photocatalytic activities. We demonstrate that …

Conjugated polymers for visible-light-driven photocatalysis

C Dai, B Liu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conjugated polymers have recently been under active investigation as promising
alternatives to traditional inorganic semiconductors for photocatalysis. This is due to their …