Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Understanding structure-activity relationships in linear polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

  • Michael Sachs,
  • Reiner Sebastian Sprick,
  • Drew Pearce,
  • Sam A. J. Hillman,
  • Adriano Monti,
  • Anne A. Y. Guilbert,
  • Nick J. Brownbill,
  • Stoichko Dimitrov,
  • Xingyuan Shi,
  • Frédéric Blanc,
  • Martijn A. Zwijnenburg,
  • Jenny Nelson,
  • James R. Durrant,
  • Andrew I. Cooper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07420-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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While inorganic semiconductors are well-studied for their solar-to-fuel energy conversion abilities, organic materials receive far less attention. Here, authors prepare linear conjugated polymers as H2 evolution photocatalysts and rationalize photocatalytic activities with fundamental properties.