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Miaojie Yu, Weiwei Zhang, Xueyan Liu, Guohui Zhao, Jun Du, Yongzhen Wu, Wei-Hong Zhu. Energy transfer enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in organic heterostructure nanoparticles via flash nanoprecipitation processing. Green Energy&Environment, 2025, 10(2): 390-398. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.04.001
Citation: Miaojie Yu, Weiwei Zhang, Xueyan Liu, Guohui Zhao, Jun Du, Yongzhen Wu, Wei-Hong Zhu. Energy transfer enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in organic heterostructure nanoparticles via flash nanoprecipitation processing. Green Energy&Environment, 2025, 10(2): 390-398. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.04.001
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Energy transfer enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in organic heterostructure nanoparticles via flash nanoprecipitation processing

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.04.001

  • a. Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China;

  • b. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, 116023, China

Funds:

the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (2023QNRC001). We acknowledge the Research Center of Analysis and Test of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) for assistance with various characterizations.

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

This study is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 22338006, 92356301, 9235630033 and 22375062)

Shanghai Pujiang Program (22PJ1402400)

“Chenguang Program” supported by Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (22CGA32)

Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (21JC1401700)

Shanghai Pilot Program for Basic Research (22TQ1400100-10)

  • Received date 19 February 2024, Accepted date 01 April 2024, RevRecd date 28 March 2024, Publish date 10 April 2024,
    Abstract
  • Organic nanophotocatalysts are promising candidates for solar fuels production, but they still face the challenge of unfavorable geminate recombination due to the limited exciton diffusion lengths. Here, we introduce a binary nanophotocatalyst fabricated by blending two polymers, PS-PEG5 (PS) and PBT-PEG5 (PBT), with matched absorption and emission spectra, enabling a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) process for enhanced photocatalysis. These heterostructure nanophotocatalysts are processed using a facile and scalable flash nanoprecipitation (FNP) technique with precious kinetic control over binary nanoparticle formation. The resulting nanoparticles exhibit an exceptional photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate up to 65 mmol g-1 h-1, 2.5 times higher than that single component nanoparticles. Characterizations through fluorescence spectra and transient absorption spectra confirm the hetero-energy transfer within the binary nanoparticles, which prolongs the excited-state lifetime and extends the namely “effective exciton diffusion length”. Our finding opens new avenues for designing efficient organic photocatalysts by improving exciton migration.

     

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