Covalent organic frameworks towards photocatalytic applications: Design principles, achievements, and opportunities

S Liu, M Wang, Y He, Q Cheng, T Qian… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a subclass of porous framework materials, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) feature
permanent porosity, long-range order, and rigid backbones, and offer an important material …

Donor-acceptor-based conjugated polymers for photocatalytic energy conversion

C Yang, B Cheng, J Xu, J Yu, S Cao - EnergyChem, 2024 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic solar-to-chemical energy conversion is deemed to be a promising, eco-
friendly, and low-energy input strategy for addressing the energy crisis. Donor− acceptor (D …

An Inorganic/Organic S‐Scheme Heterojunction H2‐Production Photocatalyst and its Charge Transfer Mechanism

C Cheng, B He, J Fan, B Cheng, S Cao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by natural photosynthesis, constructing inorganic/organic heterojunctions is
regarded as an effective strategy to design high‐efficiency photocatalysts. Herein, a step (S) …

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 …

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 …

Covalent organic frameworks with high quantum efficiency in sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

C Li, J Liu, H Li, K Wu, J Wang, Q Yang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Organic semiconductors offer a tunable platform for photocatalysis, yet the more difficult
exciton dissociation, compared to that in inorganic semiconductors, lowers their …

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 …

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 …

Boosting the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity for D–π–A conjugated microporous polymers by statistical copolymerization

C Shu, C Han, X Yang, C Zhang, Y Chen… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, great progress has been achieved in the design and preparation of conjugated
organic polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen generation. However, it is still challenging to …