Acetylene-linked conjugated polymers for sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

Liu, Lunjie and Kochman, Michał A. and Xu, Yongjie and Zwijnenburg, Martijn A. and Cooper, Andrew I. and Sprick, Reiner Sebastian (2021) Acetylene-linked conjugated polymers for sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9 (32). pp. 17242-17248. ISSN 2050-7488 (https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ta04288b)

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Abstract

Conjugated organic polymers have shown potential as photocatalysts for hydrogen production by water splitting. Taking advantage of a high throughput screening workflow, two series of acetylene-linked co-polymers were prepared and studied for their potential as photocatalysts for sacrificial hydrogen production from water. It was found that a triethynylbenzene-based polymer with a dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone linker (TE11) had the highest performance in terms of hydrogen evolution rate under visible illumination in the presence of a sacrificial hole-scavenger. Synthetically elaborating the triethynylbenzene linker in TE11 by changing the core and by introducing nitrogen, the resulting hydrogen evolution rate was further increased by a factor of nearly two.

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Liu, Lunjie, Kochman, Michał A., Xu, Yongjie, Zwijnenburg, Martijn A., Cooper, Andrew I. and Sprick, Reiner Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5389-2706;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:78000
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    28 August 2021
    Published
    16 July 2021
    Published Online
    15 July 2021
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:04 Oct 2021 14:19
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:15
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78000
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