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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis.

Bikash Mishra, Akhtar Alam, Avanti Chakraborty, Bidhan Kumbhakar, Samrat Ghosh, Pradip Pachfule, Arne Thomas

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Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. π-Bridge Modulation in Three-Motif Covalent Organic Framework for Efficient HAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  20. Functional Metal Complexes for Solar-Light-Driven Energy Conversion.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bikash MishraDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 700106, India.
Akhtar AlamDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 700106, India.
Avanti ChakrabortyDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 700106, India.
Bidhan KumbhakarDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 700106, India.
Samrat GhoshInorganic and Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai, 600020, India.
Pradip PachfuleDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 700106, India.
Arne ThomasFunctional Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 40, 10623, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2130-4930

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 033RC02-4PRODIGYDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EXC 2008-390540038-UniSysCatS. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences SRG/2022/000217
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global energy crisis and environmental concerns are driving research into renewable energy and sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies. Solar energy, as an ideal sustainable resource, has significant potential to contribute to the goal of net-zero carbon emissions if effectively harnessed and converted into a reliable and storable form of energy. Photocatalysts have the potential to convert sunlight into chemical energy carriers. In this respect, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have shown great promise due to their tunable structure on different length scales, high surface areas, and beneficial optical properties such as broad visible light absorption. This review offers a comprehensive overview of the key developments in COF-based photocatalysts for various applications, including water splitting, hydrogen peroxide generation, organic transformations, and carbon dioxide and nitrogen reduction. The underlying mechanisms, essential principles for material design, and structure-function relationships of COFs in various photocatalytic applications are discussed. The challenges faced by COF-based photocatalysts are also summarized and various strategies to enhance their performance are explained, such as improving crystallinity, regulating molecular structures, tailoring linkages, and incorporating cocatalysts. Finally, critical strategies are proposed for the utilization of photocatalytically generated chemicals into value-added products.

Indexed as

CO2 reductionCOFsmicroporous materialsPhotocatalysiswater splitting

Identifiers

PMID39654345
PMCPMC12747479

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