Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30035-x
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21733009, 22002162, 21973091]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB17020200]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2021185]
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While organic semiconductors offer a tunable platform for photocatalysis, their performance is often worse compared to inorganic semiconductors. In this study, the incorporation of a donor-acceptor pair into a covalent organic framework significantly prolongs the charge carrier lifetime and enhances the photocatalytic H-2 evolution performance with a platinum co-catalyst.
Organic semiconductors offer a tunable platform for photocatalysis, yet the more difficult exciton dissociation, compared to that in inorganic semiconductors, lowers their photocatalytic activities. In this work, we report that the charge carrier lifetime is dramatically prolonged by incorporating a suitable donor-acceptor (beta-ketene-cyano) pair into a covalent organic framework nanosheet. These nanosheets show an apparent quantum efficiency up to 82.6% at 450 nm using platinum as co-catalyst for photocatalytic H-2 evolution. Charge carrier kinetic analysis and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy characterizations verify that these modified covalent organic framework nanosheets have intrinsically lower exciton binding energies and longer-lived charge carriers than the corresponding nanosheets without the donor-acceptor unit. This work provides a model for gaining insight into the nature of short-lived active species in polymeric organic photocatalysts. While organic semiconductors offer a tunable platform for photocatalysis, they often show worse performances. Here, authors examine how a donor-acceptor pair's incorporation into a covalent organic framework boosts photocatalytic H-2 evolution performances with a platinum co-catalyst.
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