Imperial College London
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Professor James Durrant, CBE, FRS

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Photochemistry
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5321j.durrant Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Lisa Benbow +44 (0)20 7594 5883

 
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Location

 

G22CMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wang:2019:10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5,
author = {Wang, Y and Vogel, A and Sachs, M and Sprick, RS and Wilbraham, L and Moniz, SJA and Godin, R and Zwijnenburg, MA and Durrant, JR and Cooper, AI and Tang, J},
doi = {10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5},
journal = {Nature Energy},
pages = {746--760},
title = {Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5},
volume = {4},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The use of hydrogen as a fuel, when generated from water using semiconductor photocatalysts and driven by sunlight, is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Polymeric photocatalysts are based on Earth-abundant elements and have the advantage over their inorganic counterparts in that their electronic properties are easily tuneable through molecular engineering. Polymeric photocatalysts have developed rapidly over the past decade, resulting in the discovery of many active materials. However, our understanding of the key properties underlying their photoinitiated redox processes has not kept pace, and this impedes further progress to generate cost-competitive technologies. Here, we discuss state-of-the-art polymeric photocatalysts and our microscopic understanding of their activities. We conclude with a discussion of five outstanding challenges in this field: non-standardized reporting of activities, limited photochemical stability, insufficient knowledge of reaction mechanisms, balancing charge carrier lifetimes with catalysis timescales and the use of unsustainable sacrificial reagents.
AU  - Wang,Y
AU  - Vogel,A
AU  - Sachs,M
AU  - Sprick,RS
AU  - Wilbraham,L
AU  - Moniz,SJA
AU  - Godin,R
AU  - Zwijnenburg,MA
AU  - Durrant,JR
AU  - Cooper,AI
AU  - Tang,J
DO  - 10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5
EP  - 760
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2058-7546
SP  - 746
TI  - Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts
T2  - Nature Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000486098400009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0456-5
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/74694
VL  - 4
ER  -
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