Particulate photocatalysts for light-driven water splitting: mechanisms, challenges, and design strategies

Q Wang, K Domen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water splitting provides a leading approach to store the abundant yet
intermittent solar energy and produce hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier. A …

Recent advances in conjugated polymers for visible‐light‐driven water splitting

C Zhao, Z Chen, R Shi, X Yang, T Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the ambition of solving the challenges of the shortage of fossil fuels and their
associated environmental pollution, visible‐light‐driven splitting of water into hydrogen and …

Conjugated polymers: catalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

G Zhang, ZA Lan, X Wang - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers, comprising fully π‐conjugated systems, present a new generation of
heterogeneous photocatalysts for solar‐energy utilization. They have three key features …

Enhanced photocarrier separation in conjugated polymer engineered CdS for direct Z-scheme photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Y Hu, X Hao, Z Cui, J Zhou, S Chu, Y Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
High efficiency hydrogen generation from water has been achieved in sulfide-polymer
heterojunction. In this work, a novel direct Z-scheme CdS/polyimide heterojunction was …

Sunlight-driven water-splitting using two-dimensional carbon based semiconductors

P Kumar, R Boukherroub, K Shankar - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The overwhelming challenge of depleting fossil fuels and anthropogenic carbon emissions
has driven research into alternative clean sources of energy. To achieve the goal of a …

The effect of residual palladium catalyst contamination on the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of conjugated polymers

J Kosco, M Sachs, R Godin, M Kirkus… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of residual Pd on hydrogen evolution activity in conjugated polymer photocatalytic
systems is systematically investigated using colloidal poly (9, 9‐dioctylfluorene‐alt …

Substantial Cyano‐Substituted Fully sp2‐Carbon‐Linked Framework: Metal‐Free Approach and Visible‐Light‐Driven Hydrogen Evolution

S Bi, ZA Lan, S Paasch, W Zhang, Y He… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric semiconductors are emerging as a kind of competitive photocatalysts for
hydrogen evolution due to their well‐tunable structures, versatile functionalization, and low …

Synthesis, characterization and visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction of carbazole-containing conjugated polymers

M Mansha, I Khan, N Ullah, A Qurashi - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogen (H 2) is one of the most important fuel candidates and its low-cost production
would necessitate the development of efficient electrocatalysts. In this study, we report the …

Positive effects of phosphotungstic acid on the in-situ solid-state polymerization and visible light photocatalytic activity of polyimide-based photocatalyst

P Meng, H Heng, Y Sun, J Huang, J Yang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract A series of H 3 PW 12 O 40 (HPW)-containing polyimide (PI) hybrid composites
(TPI) are prepared through in-situ solid-state polymerization using HPW, melem and …

Constructing porous polyimide/carbon quantum dots aerogel with efficient photocatalytic property under visible light

Y Bai, X Yi, B Li, S Chen, Z Fan - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyimide was widely studied as semiconductor polymer photocatalyst. However, polyimide
photocatalyst suffers from small specific surface area, poor visible light absorption and low …