Organic photoelectrode engineering: accelerating photocurrent generation via donor–acceptor interactions and surface-assisted synthetic approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388963%3A_____%2F21%3A00541532" target="_blank" >RIV/61388963:_____/21:00541532 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216305:26620/21:PU140983 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10442272 RIV/60461373:22310/21:43924025

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA11820F" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA11820F</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ta11820f" target="_blank" >10.1039/d0ta11820f</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Organic photoelectrode engineering: accelerating photocurrent generation via donor–acceptor interactions and surface-assisted synthetic approach

Original language description

Conventional photoelectrocatalysts composed of precious metals and inorganic elements have limited synthetic design, hence, hampered modularity of their photophysical properties. Here, we demonstrate a scalable, one-pot synthetic approach to grow organic polymer films on the surface of the conventional copper plate under mild conditions. Molecular precursors, containing electron-rich thiophene and electron-deficient triazine-rings, were combined into a donor–acceptor π-conjugated polymer with a broad visible light adsorption range due to a narrow bandgap of 1.42 eV. The strong charge push–pull effect enabled the fabricated donor–acceptor material to have a marked activity as an electrode in a photoelectrochemical cell, reaching anodic photocurrent density of 6.8 μA cm−2 (at 0.6 V vs. Ag/AgCl, pH 7). This value is 3 times higher than that of the model donor–donor thiophene-only-based polymer and twice as high as that of the analogue synthesized in bulk using the heterogenous CuCl catalyst. In addition, the fabricated photoanode showed a 2-fold increase in the photoelectrocatalytic oxygen evolution from water upon simulated sunlight irradiation with the photocurrent density up to 4.8 mA cm−2 (at 1.0 V vs. Ag/AgCl, pH 14). The proposed engineering strategy opens new pathways toward the fabrication of efficient organic “green” materials for photoelectrocatalytic solar energy conversion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10401 - Organic chemistry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

ISSN

2050-7488

e-ISSN

2050-7496

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

7162-7171

UT code for WoS article

000632069500051

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102982200