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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Self-Trapped Excitons Activate Pseudo-Inert Basal Planes of 2D Organic Semiconductors for Improved Photocatalysis.

Jindi Yang, Xiangkang Zeng, Bicheng Zhu, Sharidya Rahman, Chuanbiao Bie, Ming Yong, Kaige Sun, Mike Tebyetekerwa, Zhuyuan Wang, Lijun Guo and 6 more

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Article 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 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Enhanced Photocatalytic HAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  3. Green Supercritical CONanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Jindi YangDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8818-8188
Xiangkang ZengDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Bicheng ZhuLaboratory of Solar Fuel, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 68 Jincheng Street, Wuhan, 430078, P. R. China.
Sharidya RahmanARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Chuanbiao BieLaboratory of Solar Fuel, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 68 Jincheng Street, Wuhan, 430078, P. R. China.
Ming YongDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Kaige SunDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Mike TebyetekerwaDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Zhuyuan WangDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Lijun GuoDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Xin SunDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Yuan KangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Lars ThomsenAustralian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia.
Zhimeng SunInstitute of Resources and Environment, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, North Xisanhuan Road 27, Haidian District, Beijing, 100089, China.
Zhongguo ZhangInstitute of Resources and Environment, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, North Xisanhuan Road 27, Haidian District, Beijing, 100089, China.
Xiwang ZhangDow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4319-527X

Funding

Australian Research Council DE220100429Australian Research Council DE240100623Australian Research Council Linkage LP200301320Beijing Academy of Science and Technology 23CA004Beijing Academy of Science and Technology 24CA006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

2D organic semiconductors are widely considered superior photocatalysts due to their large basal planes, which host abundant and tunable reaction sites. However, here, it is discovered that these basal planes can be pseudo-inert, fundamentally challenging conventional design strategies that assume uniform activity on the surface of 2D organic semiconductors. Using 2D potassium-poly (heptazine imide) (KPHI) for hydrogen peroxide photocatalysis as a model, it is demonstrated that the pseudo-inertness of basal planes stems from preferential exciton transport to edges, instead of interlayer transport in highly ordered structures. Thus, their dimension reduction enables controlled localization of exciton due to the self-trapping mechanism, whereby the basal planes can transform from pseudo-inert state into active catalytic sites. With this knowledge, a modified 2D KPHI capable of generating 35 mmol g

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2D materialshydrogen peroxide productionorganic 2D semiconductorphotophotocatalysissurface reaction

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