Semiconducting polymers for oxygen evolution reaction under light illumination

Y Fang, Y Hou, X Fu, X Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sunlight-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel has stimulated intensive scientific
interest, as this technology has the potential to revolutionize fossil fuel-based energy …

Key Strategies for Enhancing H2 Production in Transition Metal Oxide Based Photocatalysts

MZ Rahman, F Raziq, H Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) were one of the first photocatalysts used to produce
hydrogen from water using solar energy. Despite the emergence of many other genres of …

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 …

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 …

Fullerene–graphene acceptor drives ultrafast carrier dynamics for sustainable CdS photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

W Wang, Y Tao, J Fan, Z Yan, H Shang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrafast excited‐state decay and intrinsic charge carrier recombination restrain the
photoactivity enhancement for solar‐to‐H2 production. Here, a CdS‐fullerene/graphene …

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 …

Rational design of conjugated microporous polymer photocatalysts with definite D− π–A structures for ultrahigh photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity under …

C Han, S **ang, S **, C Zhang, JX Jiang - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic polymers with conjugated architectures have been widely exploited as
photocatalyst materials for hydrogen generation. However, it is still an enormous challenge …

Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production

MZ Rahman, T Edvinsson, J Gascon - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
In photochemical production of hydrogen from water, the hole-mediated oxidation reaction is
the rate-determining step. A poor solar-to-hydrogen efficiency is usually related to a …

Visual growth of nano-HOFs for low‐power memristive spiking neuromorphic system

C Zhang, Y Li, F Yu, G Wang, K Wang, C Ma, X Yang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Memristors showcasing progressive conductance modulation are now recognized as one of
the most promising candidates to act like electronic synapses inside computer circuits …