Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in 2D covalent organic frameworks/Re-complex hybrid photocatalyst

  • Qinying Pan,
  • Mohamed Abdellah,
  • Yuehan Cao,
  • Weihua Lin,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jie Meng,
  • Quan Zhou,
  • Qian Zhao,
  • Xiaomei Yan,
  • Zonglong Li,
  • Hao Cui,
  • Huili Cao,
  • Wenting Fang,
  • David Ackland Tanner,
  • Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Tonu Pullerits,
  • Sophie E. Canton,
  • Hong Xu,
  • Kaibo Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28409-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Re complexes within covalent organic frameworks have emerged as promising photocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Here, authors identify a high-energy electron transfer pathway during CO2 reduction that results in longer-lived excited states than a low-energy electron transfer pathway.