Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 118, Issue 46, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115666118
Keywords
hydrogen peroxide; photocatalysis; conjugated polymer; environmental chemistry; electron storage
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22036003, 22076222, 21737006]
- Guangdong Provincial Key RD Programme [2020B1111350002]
- National Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2020A1515011442]
- Funda-mental Research Funds for the Central Universities [20lgpy90]
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By mimicking the NADP-mediated photosynthetic processes in green plants, the current study has achieved progress in improving charge carrier separation efficiency and oxygen reduction efficiency, realizing efficient conversion of water and oxygen into hydrogen peroxide. The solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency in this artificial photosynthesis is significantly higher than that in nature, providing a strategy for efficient solar-to-chemical conversion in the future.
Artificial photosynthesis in ambient conditions is much less efficient than the solar-to-biomass conversion (SBC) processes in nature. Here, we successfully mimic the NADP-mediated photosynthetic processes in green plants by introducing redox moieties as the electron acceptors in the present conjugated polymeric photocatalyst. The current artificial process substantially promotes the charge carrier separation efficiency and the oxygen reduction efficiency, achieving a photosynthesis rate for converting Earth-abundant water and oxygen in air into hydrogen peroxide as high as 909 mu mol.g(-1)h(-1) and a solar-to-chemical conversion (SCC) efficiency up to 0.26%. The SCC efficiency is more than two times higher than the average SBC efficiency in nature (0.1%) and the highest value under ambient conditions. This study presents a strategy for efficient SCC in the future.
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