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Zhiwei Fu1, Xiaoyan Wang1, Adrian M Gardner2, Xue Wang1,3, Samantha Y Chong1, Gaia Neri2, Alexander J Cowan2, Lunjie Liu1, Xiaobo Li1, Anastasia Vogel1, Rob Clowes1, Matthew Bilton4, Linjiang Chen1,3, Reiner Sebastian Sprick1, Andrew I Cooper1,3.
Abstract
Photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into fuels is an important challenge for clean energy research and has attracted considerable interest. Here we show that tethering molecular catalysts-a rhenium complex, [Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl]-together in the form of a crystalline covalent organic framework (COF) affords a heterogeneous photocatalyst with a strong visible light absorption, a high CO2 binding affinity, and ultimately an improved catalytic performance over its homogeneous Re counterpart. The COF incorporates bipyridine sites, allowing for ligation of the Re complex, into a fully π-conjugated backbone that is chemically robust and promotes light-harvesting. A maximum rate of 1040 μmol g-1 h-1 for CO production with 81% selectivity was measured. CO production rates were further increased up to 1400 μmol g-1 h-1, with an improved selectivity of 86%, when a photosensitizer was added. Addition of platinum resulted in production of syngas, hence, the co-formation of H2 and CO, the chemical composition of which could be adjusted by varying the ratio of COF to platinum. An amorphous analog of the COF showed significantly lower CO production rates, suggesting that crystallinity of the COF is beneficial to its photocatalytic performance in CO2 reduction. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020.Entities:
Year: 2019 PMID: 32206271 PMCID: PMC7069507 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc03800k
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Sci ISSN: 2041-6520 Impact factor: 9.825
Fig. 1(a) Synthesis of Bpy-sp and Re-Bpy-sp. Conditions for Bpy-sp: KOH (4 M) 1,2-dichlorobenzene and 1-butanol (1 : 1 mixture), 120 °C, 72 hours; (b) and (c) PXRD patterns of Bpy-sp (b) and Re-Bpy-sp (c) obtained experimentally (red circles), simulated from the eclipsed AA-stacking mode (green), profiles calculated from Le Bail fitting (black) and residual (blue). Reflection positions are shown by tick marks. Structural models for Bpy-sp (b) and Re-Bpy-sp (c) with eclipsed AA stacking patterns, shown parallel to the pore channel along the crystallographic c axis (top) and parallel to the layers (bottom).
Fig. 2(a) N2 Adsorption (filled dots) and desorption (open dots) isotherm profiles of Bpy-sp measured at 77 K. Inset: profile of the calculated pore size distribution of Bpy-sp; (b) STEM images and EDX mapping of Re-Bpy-sp; (c) FT-IR Spectra of Bpy-sp, Re-Bpy-sp and 5,5′-bis(cyanomethyl)-2,2′-bipyridine; (d) Solid-state reflectance UV-vis spectra; (e) CO2 adsorption isotherms of Bpy-sp (blue) and Re-Bpy-sp (red).
Fig. 3(a) FT-IR Spectra of 13CO produced in the photoreduction of 13CO2 (b) transient photocurrent response at 0.5 V vs. RHE under intermittent light irradiation for Bpy-sp and Re-Bpy-sp; (c) Nyquist plots of Bpy-sp (blue) and Re-Bpy-sp (red) at a voltage of 0.5 V vs. RHE under dark (open dots) and light irradiation (closed dots); (d) time-correlated single-photon counting experiments for Bpy-sp and Re-Bpy-sp in MeCN/TEOA (30/1) solution purged with CO2 (λexc = 405 nm); (e) CO (closed dots) and H2 (open dots) production using visible light (λ > 420 nm, 300 W Xe light source) for Re-Bpy-sp and Re-Bpy-sp with dye (1 mg catalyst or 1 mg catalyst with 0.3 mmol or 1.0 mmol dye in 5 mL solvent with ratio of MeCN/TEOA = 30/1); (f) photocatalytic syngas generation of Pt modified Re-Bpy-sp under visible light irradiation (λ > 420 nm, 300 W Xe light source).
Fig. 4Transient absorption spectra of (a) Re-Bpy-sp and (c) Bpy-sp at pump-probe time delays chosen to highlight the changing nature of the excited electronic states probed, and the complete transient absorption surface probed (b) Re-Bpy-sp and (d) Bpy-sp. All spectra are recorded in CH3CN following 400 nm excitation.