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Zhipeng Luo1, Xiaowen Chen1, Yuanyuan Hu1
1State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A new series of donor-acceptor (D-A)-type semiconductive polymers were generated by the integration of electron-deficient alkyl chain anchored triazole (TA) moieties and electron-rich pyrene units into the polymer skeleton. The polymer series demonstrated satisfactory light-harvesting ability and suitable band gaps. In the series, polymer P-TAME benefits from a minimized exciton binding energy, strongest D-A interaction, and favorable hydrophilicity, affording an outstanding photocatalytic H2 evolution rate of ca. 100 μmol h-1 (10 mg polymer, AQY420 nm =8.9 %) and H2 O2 production rate of ca. 190 μmol h-1 (20 mg polymer) under visible-light irradiation, which is superior to most currently reported polymers. All polymers in the series can mediate water oxidation reactions to evolve O2 . Thus, these TA-based polymers open up a new avenue toward tailor-made efficient photocatalysts with broad photocatalytic activities.
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