Soft Photocatalysis: Organic Polymers for Solar Fuel Productions

Vyas, Vijay S.; Lau, Vincent Wing-hei and Lotsch, Bettina V. (2016): Soft Photocatalysis: Organic Polymers for Solar Fuel Productions. In: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 28, No. 15: pp. 5191-5204

Abstract

Solar fuel generation has attracted vast research interest as an environmentally benign means of producing energy from sunlight for catering to the ever growing world energy demands. As an alternative to inorganic semiconductors, organic polymers have entered the stage as promising photocatalytic systems offering a yet unprecedented scope for molecular engineering and precise tuning of optoelectronic properties. This perspective presents an overview of the development, state-of-the-art, and growth perspectives of this emerging field and highlights recent advances in photocatalyst design with a particular focus on structure property-activity relationships in structurally well-defined 2D polymers for hydrogen evolution.

• Item Type: Journal article
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 639233
• EU Projects: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Starting Grant > ERC Grant 639233: Fuel from sunlight: Covalent organic frameworks as integrated platforms for photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 0897-4756
• Language: English