Structure–activity relationships in well-defined conjugated oligomer photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Structure–activity relationships in well-defined conjugated oligomer photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water

Published:2020 Issue:33 Volume:11 Page:8744-8756
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Aitchison Catherine M.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Sachs Michael⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID,Little Marc A.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Wilbraham Liam⁸⁹¹⁰⁴,Brownbill Nick J.¹²³⁴¹¹,Kane Christopher M.¹²³⁴,Blanc Frédéric¹²³⁴¹¹^ORCID,Zwijnenburg Martijn A.⁸⁹¹⁰⁴^ORCID,Durrant James R.⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID,Sprick Reiner Sebastian¹²³⁴¹²^ORCID,Cooper Andrew I.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry and Materials Innovation Factory

2. University of Liverpool

3. Liverpool L7 3NY

4. UK

5. Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics

6. Imperial College London

7. London W12 0BZ

8. Department of Chemistry

9. University College London

10. London WC1H 0AJ

11. Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy

12. Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Abstract

Oligomer chain length and backbone twisting were found to have a strong effect on optoelectronic properties but a trimer of dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone was found to have high photocatalytic activity approaching that of its polymer analogue.

Funder

Diamond Light Source

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/SC/D0SC02675A

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