Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Intermolecular cascaded π-conjugation channels for electron delivery powering CO2 photoreduction

  • Shengyao Wang,
  • Xiao Hai,
  • Xing Ding,
  • Shangbin Jin,
  • Yonggang Xiang,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Bo Jiang,
  • Fumihiko Ichihara,
  • Mitsutake Oshikiri,
  • Xianguang Meng,
  • Yunxiang Li,
  • Wakana Matsuda,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Shu Seki,
  • Xuepeng Wang,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Yoshiki Wada,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Jinhua Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14851-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While conversion of CO2 to fuels may offer a bio-inspired means to renewably utilize fossil fuel emission, most materials demonstrate poor activities for CO2 reduction. Here, authors construct conjugated polymers that modulate photo-induced electron transfer to CO2 reduction catalysts.