Tailor-Made Photoconductive Pyrene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Visible-Light Driven Hydrogen Generation

Stegbauer, Linus; Zech, Sebastian; Savasci, Goekcen; Banerjee, Tanmay; Podjaski, Filip; Schwinghammer, Katharina; Ochsenfeld, Christian und Lotsch, Bettina V. (2018): Tailor-Made Photoconductive Pyrene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Visible-Light Driven Hydrogen Generation. In: Advanced Energy Materials, Bd. 8, Nr. 24, 1703278

Abstract

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as a new class of crystalline porous polymers displaying molecular tunability combined with structural definition. Here, a series of three conjugated, photoactive azine-linked COFs based on pyrene building blocks which differ in the number of nitrogen atoms in the peripheral aromatic units is presented. The structure of the COFs is analyzed by combined experimental and computational physisorption as well as quantum-chemical calculations, which suggest a slipped-stacked arrangement of the 2D layers. Photocurrents of up to 6 mu A cm(-2) with subsecond photoresponse times are measured on thin film samples for the first time. While all COFs are capable of producing hydrogen from water, their efficiency increases significantly with decreasing number of nitrogen atoms. The trending activities are rationalized by photoelectrochemical measurements and quantum-chemical calculations which suggest an increase in the thermodynamic driving force with decreasing nitrogen content to be the origin of the observed differences in hydrogen evolution activities.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 639233
• EU-Projekte: 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
• Fakultät: Chemie und Pharmazie > Department Chemie
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie
• ISSN: 1614-6832
• Sprache: Englisch