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Pengju Yang1, Hangyu Zhuzhang1, Ruirui Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, China.
Abstract:
Photosynthetic conversion of CO2 into fuel and chemicals is a promising but challenging technology. The bottleneck of this reaction lies in the activation of CO2 , owing to the chemical inertness of linear CO2 . Herein, we present a defect-engineering methodology to construct CO2 activation sites by implanting carbon vacancies (CVs) in the melon polymer (MP) matrix. Positron annihilation spectroscopy confirmed the location and density of the CVs in the MP skeleton. In situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy and a DFT study revealed that the CVs can function as active sites for CO2 activation while stabilizing COOH* intermediates, thereby boosting the reaction kinetics. As a result, the modified MP-TAP-CVs displayed a 45-fold improvement in CO2 -to-CO activity over the pristine MP. The apparent quantum efficiency of the MP-TAP-CVs was 4.8 % at 420 nm. This study sheds new light on the design of high-efficiency polymer semiconductors for CO2 conversion.
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