The potential scarcity, or not, of polymeric overall water splitting photocatalysts

Benedict Saunders; Liam Wilbraham; Andrew W. Prentice; Reiner Sebastian Sprick; Martijn A. Zwijnenburg

doi:10.1039/d2se00027j

The potential scarcity, or not, of polymeric overall water splitting photocatalysts

Benedict Saunders, Liam Wilbraham, Andrew W. Prentice, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg

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Abstract

We perform a high-throughput virtual screening of a set of 3240 conjugated alternating binary co-polymers and homo-polymers, in which we predict their ability to drive sacrificial hydrogen evolution and overall water splitting when illuminated with visible light. We use the outcome of this screening to analyse how common the ability to drive either reaction is for conjugated polymers loaded with suitable co-catalysts, and to suggest promising (co-)monomers for polymeric overall water splitting catalysts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2233-2242
Number of pages	10
Journal	Sustainable Energy and Fuels
Volume	6
Issue number	9
Early online date	21 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d2se00027j
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2022

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energy engineering and power technology
fuel technology
renewable energy, sustainability and the environment

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