Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 431, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.133897
Keywords
thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF); Metal-organic framework (MOF); Noble-metal-free photocatalyst; Long-lived excited state
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [52130308]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Program [KQTD20170330110107046]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019 M663063]
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The performance of metal-organic-framework-based photocatalysts can be enhanced by incorporating an organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence photosensitizer with a non-noble zinc node. This improvement leads to a longer excited state lifetime and efficient charge transfer, resulting in high efficiency CO2 photoreduction.
The performance of metal-organic-framework-based photocatalysts were usually limited by the short lifetime of excited state and the high cost of precious metal complexes in CO2 photoreduction. To enhance the lifetime of excited state, an organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence photosensitizer was installed with the non-noble zinc node in a periodic structure named Spiro-Zn-MOF. The horizontally prolonged linker based on D-A (D: Donor, A: Acceptor) unit provided a delayed lifetime up to micro-second-level lifetime for excited state, which was inherited in the Spiro-Zn-MOF. And the inborn D-A structure of Spiro-Zn-MOF worked with zinc node in a synergistic way, leading to a large photocathode current in the scaffold allowing for high photoreduction rate. Combination of long-lived excited state and efficient charge transfer in noble-metal-free D-A unit allowed for efficient CO2 photoreduction with a production rate of CO up to almost 50 mu mol h(-1) g(-1), which far exceeded the performances of zinc-based MOF-5 and commercialized TiO2 (P25) under the same conditions.
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