Visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution using planarized conjugated polymer photocatalysts

Autor: Frédéric Blanc, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Benjamin J. Slater, Rob Clowes, Pierre Guiglion, Andrew I. Cooper, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Dave J. Adams, Baltasar Bonillo, Nick J. Brownbill
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
ISSN: 1433-7851
Popis: Linear poly(p‐phenylene)s are modestly active UV photocatalysts for hydrogen production in the presence of a sacrificial electron donor. Introduction of planarized fluorene, carbazole, dibenzo[b,d]thiophene or dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone units greatly enhances the H2 evolution rate. The most active dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone co‐polymer has a UV photocatalytic activity that rivals TiO2, but is much more active under visible light. The dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone co‐polymer has an apparent quantum yield of 2.3 % at 420 nm, as compared to 0.1 % for platinized commercial pristine carbon nitride.
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