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- Title
Delocalizing Excitation for Highly‐Active Organic Photovoltaic Catalysts.
- Authors
Zhang, Zhenzhen; Xu, Chaoying; Sun, Qianlu; Zhu, Yufan; Yan, Wenlong; Cai, Guilong; Li, Yawen; Si, Wenqin; Lu, Xinhui; Xu, Weigao; Yang, Ye; Lin, Yuze
- Abstract
Localized excitation in traditional organic photocatalysts typically prevents the generation and extraction of photo‐induced free charge carriers, limiting their activity enhancement under illumination. Here, we enhance delocalized photoexcitation of small molecular photovoltaic catalysts by weakening their electron‐phonon coupling via rational fluoro‐substitution. The optimized 2FBP‐4F catalyst we develop here exhibits a minimized Huang–Rhys factor of 0.35 in solution, high dielectric constant and strong crystallization in the solid state. As a result, the energy barrier for exciton dissociation is decreased, and more importantly, polarons are unusually observed in 2FBP‐4F nanoparticles (NPs). With the increased hole transfer efficiency and prolonged charge carrier lifetime highly related to enhanced exciton delocalization, the PM6 : 2FBP‐4F heterojunction NPs at varied concentration exhibit much higher optimized photocatalytic activity (207.6–561.8 mmol h−1 g−1) for hydrogen evolution than the control PM6 : BP‐4F and PM6 : 2FBP‐6F NPs, as well as other reported photocatalysts under simulated solar light (AM 1.5G, 100 mW cm−2).
- Subjects
HETEROJUNCTIONS; CHARGE carrier lifetime; ELECTRON-phonon interactions; HYDROGEN evolution reactions; CATALYSTS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; CHARGE carriers
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 26, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202402343