Prentice, A;
Zwijnenburg, M;
(2021)
Hydrogen Evolution by Polymer Photocatalysts; a Possible Photocatalytic Cycle.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
10.1039/d1se00059d.
(In press).
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Abstract
We propose, supported by ab-initio calculations, a possible photocatalytic cycle for hydrogen evolution by a prototypical polymer photocatalyst, poly(p-phenylene), in the presence of a sacrificial electron donor. As part of that cycle we also introduce a family of related sites on the polymer that in the absence of a noble metal co-catalyst can facilitate the evolution of molecular hydrogen when the polymer is illuminated. The bottlenecks for hydrogen evolution, electron transfer from the sacrificial electron donor and hydrogen-hydrogen bond formation, are discussed, as well as how they could potentially be improved by tuning the polymer properties and how they change in the presence of a noble-metal co-catalyst.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hydrogen Evolution by Polymer Photocatalysts; a Possible Photocatalytic Cycle |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1se00059d |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/d1se00059d |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
| 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-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126212 |
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