Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Designing covalent organic frameworks with Co-O4 atomic sites for efficient CO2 photoreduction

  • Qian Zhang,
  • Shuaiqi Gao,
  • Yingying Guo,
  • Huiyong Wang,
  • Jishi Wei,
  • Xiaofang Su,
  • Hucheng Zhang,
  • Zhimin Liu,
  • Jianji Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36779-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A class of inexpensive aminoanthraquinone organic dyes are shown to facilitate visible-light-driven CO2 reduction. Overall reaction efficiencies were found to be optimal when both electron donating and accepting groups were on a single dye molecule.