Issue 2, 2020

Porous organic polymers: a promising platform for efficient photocatalysis

Abstract

Porous organic polymers (POPs) are a class of multi-dimensional porous network materials, which are built via strong covalent linkages between various organic building blocks with different geometries and topologies, and have recently become a rising research field in porous materials. POPs can be generally divided into two categories based on their degree of long-range order, including amorphous (e.g., CMPs, HCPs, PIMs, and PAFs) and crystalline (e.g., COFs). Owning to their advantages of light-weight, superior inherent porosity, excellent stability, pre-designable and tunable structures and functions, POPs have received increasing attention and research interest for their tremendous potential applications in gas storage/separation, heterogeneous catalysis, photoelectric conversion, chemical- and bio-sensing, energy storage and conversion, etc. Their porous structure, pore size, specific surface areas and functions can be directly designed and facilely tuned by introducing specific functional building blocks. In this review article, we summarize the latest representative advances in the field of POPs, focusing on their design and synthetic strategies, with emphasis on their specific applications in photocatalysis, including photocatalytic chemical transformation, photodetoxification of contaminants from water, and water splitting.

Graphical abstract: Porous organic polymers: a promising platform for efficient photocatalysis

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
13 অক্টো 2019
Accepted
16 অক্টো 2019
First published
19 অক্টো 2019

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020,4, 332-353

Porous organic polymers: a promising platform for efficient photocatalysis

T. Zhang, G. Xing, W. Chen and L. Chen, Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4, 332 DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00633H

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