scholarly journals Covalent organic frameworks with high quantum efficiency in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution: mediating charge separation

Author(s):  
Chunzhi Li ◽  
Jiali Liu ◽  
He Li ◽  
Kaifeng Wu ◽  
Junhui Wang ◽  
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Abstract Compared with inorganic semiconductors, the difficulty of exciton dissociation is one of the main reasons for the lower photocatalytic activity of organic semiconductors. In this work, we report that the charge carrier lifetime is dramatically prolonged by incorporating a suitable donor-acceptor (β-ketene-CN) pair to a covalent organic framework nanosheet (CN-CON). CN-CON showed remarkably high apparent quantum efficiency up to 82.6% at 450 nm in photocatalytic H2 evolution, superior to all the COFs reported so far. The charge carrier kinetic analysis and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy characterizations verified that CN-CON had intrinsically lower exciton binding energies and hence longer-lived charge carriers than the corresponding CON without CN unit. This work provides an excellent model for gaining insight into the nature of ultrashort-lived active species in polymeric organic photocatalysts.

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 14904-14910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiyu Zhang ◽  
Yaping Chen ◽  
Rong Lu ◽  
Ruiyu Li ◽  
Anchi Yu

The charge carrier kinetics of carbon nitride colloid was investigated using a combination of femtosecond transient absorption and picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (26) ◽  
pp. 16760-16766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Pandit ◽  
Ruvini Dharmadasa ◽  
I. M. Dharmadasa ◽  
Thad Druffel ◽  
Jinjun Liu

Charge transfer processes in CdS/CdTe thin films have been studied by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy.


Author(s):  
Junjie Chen ◽  
Sen Guo ◽  
Dabin Lin ◽  
Zhaogang Nie ◽  
Chung-Che Huang ◽  
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Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy has been employed to unravel separate initial nonequilibrium dynamic process of photo-injected electrons and holes during the formation process of the lowest excitons at the K-valley...


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Xiangyang Li ◽  
Zongpeng Song ◽  
Huancheng Zhao ◽  
Wenfei Zhang ◽  
Zhenhua Sun ◽  
...  

In recent years, using two-dimensional (2D) materials to realize broadband photodetection has become a promising area in optoelectronic devices. Here, we successfully synthesized SnSe nanosheets (NSs) by a facile tip ultra-sonication method in water-ethanol solvent which was eco-friendly. The carrier dynamics of SnSe NSs was systematically investigated via a femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in the visible wavelength regime and three decay components were clarified with delay time of τ1 = 0.77 ps, τ2 = 8.3 ps, and τ3 = 316.5 ps, respectively, indicating their potential applications in ultrafast optics and optoelectronics. As a proof-of-concept, the photodetectors, which integrated SnSe NSs with monolayer graphene, show high photoresponsivities and excellent response speeds for different incident lasers. The maximum photo-responsivities for 405, 532, and 785 nm were 1.75 × 104 A/W, 4.63 × 103 A/W, and 1.52 × 103 A/W, respectively. The photoresponse times were ~22.6 ms, 11.6 ms, and 9.7 ms. This behavior was due to the broadband light response of SnSe NSs and fast transportation of photocarriers between the monolayer graphene and SnSe NSs.


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