Covalent triazine-based frameworks with cobalt-loading for visible light-driven photocatalytic water oxidation

Autor: Hongmei Chen, Adrian M. Gardner, Guoan Lin, Wei Zhao, Mounib Bahri, Nigel D. Browning, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Xiaobo Li, Xiaoxiang Xu, Andrew I. Cooper
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Catalysis Science & Technology. 12:5442-5452
ISSN: 2044-4761
2044-4753
DOI: 10.1039/d2cy00773h
Popis: Conjugated polymers have received significant attention as photocatalysts. However, photocatalytic oxygen evolution has only been reported for a few polymers so far. Here, we present a bipyridine based covalent triazine-based framework containing metal coordination sites (Bpy-CTF). The material is highly active for sacrificial photocatalytic oxygen evolution with a rate of 322 μmol g−1 h−1 under visible light illumination (≥420 nm) after post-synthetic cobalt coordination. An analogous photocatalyst containing biphenyl was found to be less active as it is not able to coordinate cobalt. Transient absorption spectroscopy studies showed that the cobalt coordinated in the bipyridine units of Bpy-CTF promotes charge separation and transfer, thus increasing water oxidation activity. The study demonstrates the growing potential of polymer photocatalysts for oxygen evolution by structural engineering and post-synthetic metalation.
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