Technological innovations in photochemistry for organic synthesis: flow chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, scale-up, and photoelectrochemistry

L Buglioni, F Raymenants, A Slattery… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced chemical transformations have received in recent years a tremendous amount
of attention, providing a plethora of opportunities to synthetic organic chemists. However …

Machine learning for electrocatalyst and photocatalyst design and discovery

H Mai, TC Le, D Chen, DA Winkler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysts and photocatalysts are key to a sustainable future, generating clean fuels,
reducing the impact of global warming, and providing solutions to environmental pollution …

A mobile robotic chemist

B Burger, PM Maffettone, VV Gusev, CM Aitchison… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Technologies such as batteries, biomaterials and heterogeneous catalysts have functions
that are defined by mixtures of molecular and mesoscale components. As yet, this multi …

Computation-based regulation of excitonic effects in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalysis

Y Qian, Y Han, X Zhang, G Yang, G Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The strong excitonic effects widely exist in polymer-semiconductors and the large exciton
binding energy (E b) seriously limits their photocatalysis. Herein, density functional theory …

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 …

Molecularly engineered covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis

M Kou, Y Wang, Y Xu, L Ye, Y Huang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesizing H2O2 from water and air via a photocatalytic approach is ideal for efficient
production of this chemical at small‐scale. However, the poor activity and selectivity of the 2 …

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 …

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 …

Accelerated synthesis and discovery of covalent organic framework photocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide production

W Zhao, P Yan, B Li, M Bahri, L Liu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A high-throughput sonochemical synthesis and testing strategy was developed to discover
covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for photocatalysis. In total, 76 conjugated polymers …

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 …