Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 1617-1624Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ee02981k
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- EPSRC [EP/N009533/1, EP/K021192/1]
- Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship grant [NA170422]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2017-122]
- ARCHER National Computing Facility by a Resource Allocation Project [e454]
- China Scholarship Council [201406370157]
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Water oxidation is a rate-determining step in solar driven H-2 fuel synthesis and is technically challenging to promote. Despite decades of effort, only a few inorganic catalysts are effective and even fewer are effective under visible light. Recently, attention has been paid to synthetic semiconducting polymers, mainly on graphitic C3N4, with encouraging hydrogen evolution performance but lower activity for water oxidation. Here, a highly ordered covalent triazine-based framework, CTF-1 (C8N2H4), is synthesised by a very mild microwave-assisted polymerisation approach. It demonstrates extremely high activity for oxygen evolution under visible light irradiation, leading to an apparent quantum efficiency (AQE) of nearly 4% at 420 nm. Furthermore, the polymer can also efficiently evolve H-2 from water. A high AQE of 6% at 420 nm for H-2 production has also been achieved. The polymer holds great potential for overall water splitting. This exceptional performance is attributed to its well-defined and ordered structure, low carbonisation, and superior band positions.
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