The potential scarcity, or not, of polymeric overall water splitting photocatalysts

Saunders, Benedict and Wilbraham, Liam and Prentice, Andrew W. and Sprick, Reiner Sebastian and Zwijnenburg, Martijn A. (2022) The potential scarcity, or not, of polymeric overall water splitting photocatalysts. Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 6 (9). pp. 2233-2242. (https://doi.org/10.1039/d2se00027j)

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Abstract

We perform a high-throughput virtual screening of a set of 3240 conjugated alternating binary co-polymers and homo-polymers, in which we predict their ability to drive sacrificial hydrogen evolution and overall water splitting when illuminated with visible light. We use the outcome of this screening to analyse how common the ability to drive either reaction is for conjugated polymers loaded with suitable co-catalysts, and to suggest promising (co-)monomers for polymeric overall water splitting catalysts.

ORCID iDs

Saunders, Benedict, Wilbraham, Liam, Prentice, Andrew W., Sprick, Reiner Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5389-2706 and Zwijnenburg, Martijn A.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:80154
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    21 March 2022
    Published
    21 March 2022
    Published Online
    21 March 2022
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:11 Apr 2022 09:52
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:27
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80154
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