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Computation-based regulation of excitonic effects in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalysis

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  • Yunyang Qian

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Yulan Han

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Xiyuan Zhang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Ge Yang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Guozhen Zhang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Hai-Long Jiang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

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The strong excitonic effects widely exist in polymer-semiconductors and the large exciton binding energy (Eb) seriously limits their photocatalysis. Herein, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are conducted to assess band alignment and charge transfer feature of potential donor-acceptor (D-A) covalent organic frameworks (COFs), using 1,3,5-tris(4-aminophenyl)triazine (TAPT) or 1,3,5-tris(4-aminophenyl)benzene (TAPB) as acceptors and tereph-thaldehydes functionalized diverse groups as donors. Given the discernable D-A interaction strengths in the D-A pairs, their Eb can be systematically regulated with minimum Eb in TAPT-OMe. Guided by these results, the corresponding D-A COFs are synthesized, where TAPT-OMe-COF possesses the best activity in photocatalytic H2 production and the activity trend of other COFs is associated with that of calculated Eb for the D-A pairs. In addition, further alkyne cycloaddition for the imine linkage in the COFs greatly improves the stability and the resulting TAPT-OMe-alkyne-COF with a substantially smaller Eb exhibits ~20 times higher activity than the parent COF.

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  • Yunyang Qian & Yulan Han & Xiyuan Zhang & Ge Yang & Guozhen Zhang & Hai-Long Jiang, 2023. "Computation-based regulation of excitonic effects in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalysis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-38884-w
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