Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly

LR MacFarlane, H Shaikh… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The development of π-conjugated polymers has provided a gateway to a variety of new
functional organic materials reminiscent of inorganic semiconductors. Nanoparticles based …

The bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaic, photodetector, and photocatalytic applications

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, J Kosco, N Gasparini… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors require an energetic offset in order to photogenerate free charge
carriers efficiently, owing to their inability to effectively screen charges. This is vitally …

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 …

Preparation, characterization, evaluation and mechanistic study of organic polymer nano-photocatalysts for solar fuel production

MV Pavliuk, S Wrede, A Liu, A Brnovic… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Production of renewable fuels from solar energy and abundant resourses, such as water
and carbon dioxide, via photocatalytic reactions is seen as a promising strategy to …

Photocatalysts based on organic semiconductors with tunable energy levels for solar fuel applications

J Kosco, F Moruzzi, B Willner… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The photocatalytic synthesis of solar fuels such as hydrogen and methane from water and
carbon dioxide is a promising strategy to store abundant solar energy in order to overcome …

Panchromatic ternary polymer dots involving sub-picosecond energy and charge transfer for efficient and stable photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

A Liu, L Gedda, M Axelsson, M Pavliuk… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Panchromatic ternary polymer dots (Pdots) consisting of two conjugated polymers (PFBT
and PFODTBT) based on fluorene and benzothiadiazole groups, and one small molecular …

Visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution using nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dot-implanted polymer dots as metal-free photocatalysts

MH Elsayed, J Jayakumar, M Abdellah… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the photocatalytic properties of semiconducting polymers and carbon quantum dots
(CQDs), we report a new structure for a metal-free photocatalytic system with a promising …