Sprick, RS;
Catherine M., A;
Berardo, E;
Turcani, L;
Wilbraham, L;
Alston, BM;
Jelfs, KE;
... Cooper, AI; + view all
(2018)
Maximising the Hydrogen Evolution Activity in Organic Photocatalysts by Co-polymerisation.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
, 6
(25)
pp. 11994-12003.
10.1039/c8ta04186e.
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Abstract
The hydrogen evolution activity of a polymeric photocatalyst was maximised by co-polymerisation, using both experimental and computational screening, for a family of 1,4-phenylene/2,5-thiophene co-polymers. The photocatalytic activity is the product of multiple material properties that are affected in different ways by the polymer composition and microstructure. For the first time, the photocatalytic activity was shown to be a function of the arrangement of the building blocks in the polymer chain as well as the overall composition. The maximum in hydrogen evolution for the co-polymer series appears to result from a trade-off between the fraction of light absorbed and the thermodynamic driving force for proton reduction and sacrificial electron donor oxidation, with the co-polymer of p-terphenyl and 2,5-thiophene showing the highest activity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Maximising the Hydrogen Evolution Activity in Organic Photocatalysts by Co-polymerisation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c8ta04186e |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ta04186e |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access Article. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050373 |
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