Issue 46, 2022

Bandgap engineering of covalent organic frameworks for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

Abstract

Solar light-promoted hydrogen production from water using covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as a photocatalyst is an attractive technique for clean energy sources. To boost the photocatalytic performance of COFs, it is necessary to narrow their bandgap. However, the bandgap engineering of COFs at the molecular level is less explored. Here, we synthesized four COFs using 2,4,6-tris(4-aminophenyl)-1,3,5-triazine with 1,3,5-triformylbenzene, 2,4,6-triformylphloroglucinol, 2,4,6-triformylphenol, and 2,4,6-triformylresorcinol, respectively, denoted as COF-OH-n (n = 0–3, representing the number of –OH groups). The different degrees of proton tautomerism in COF-OH-n arise from the different numbers of β-ketoenamine linkages in their skeletons, leading to the regulation of the visible light absorbing ability, bandgap, and band edge positions of COF-OH-n. Due to irreversible proton tautomerism in COF-OH-3, it exhibited the most suitable band structures with a bandgap of 2.28 eV and a flat band of −0.62 eV among COF-OH-n, resulting in the highest photocatalytic hydrogen production rate from water (i.e., 9.89 mmol g−1 h−1), while the other COFs delivered significantly low photocatalytic performances (e.g., ∼0, 0.11, and 2.91 mmol g−1 h−1 for COF-OH-1, COF-OH-0 and COF-OH-2, respectively).

Graphical abstract: Bandgap engineering of covalent organic frameworks for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Вер 2022
Accepted
02 Лис 2022
First published
02 Лис 2022

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022,10, 24620-24627

Bandgap engineering of covalent organic frameworks for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

Y. Chen, X. Luo, J. Zhang, L. Hu, T. Xu, W. Li, L. Chen, M. Shen, S. Ren, D. Han, G. Ning and D. Li, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 24620 DOI: 10.1039/D2TA07271H

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