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 …

Nanomaterials are beginning to play an essential role in addressing the challenges
associated with hydrogen production and storage. The outstanding physicochemical …

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 …

Photocatalysts formed from a single organic semiconductor typically suffer from inefficient
intrinsic charge generation, which leads to low photocatalytic activities. We demonstrate that …

Conjugated polymers have recently been under active investigation as promising
alternatives to traditional inorganic semiconductors for photocatalysis. This is due to their …

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 …

The development of π-conjugated polymers has provided a gateway to a variety of new
functional organic materials reminiscent of inorganic semiconductors. Nanoparticles based …

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 …

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are one of the most important and dynamic members
of the porous organic materials and are constructed using reticular chemistry with the …

Carbon dots that exhibit near-infrared fluorescence (NIR CDs) are considered emerging
nanomaterials for advanced biomedical applications with low toxicity and superior …