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ArticleNature communications2025

Solar-driven fast photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using size-minimized organic heterojunctions.

Wenqin Si, Yawen Li, Tengfei Li, Heng Liu, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xinhui Lu, Dong Qiu, Yan Qiao, Yuze Lin

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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9 authors.

Wenqin Si *Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yawen Li *Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-6828
Tengfei LiBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0501-1505
Heng LiuDepartment of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
Zhenzhen ZhangBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xinhui LuDepartment of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1908-3294
Dong QiuBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6320-0913
Yan QiaoBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7756
Yuze LinBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. linyz@iccas.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-3842

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52173189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pursuing small catalyst sizes has remained a constant endeavor to maximize reaction yields by exposing more active sites and/or enhancing charge extraction. Organic particle photocatalysts typically remain tens to hundreds of nanometers in size, constrained by the quasi-infinite conjugation of commonly used polymers. Here, we reveal the size-minimized organic heterojunction nanoparticles by using all small molecule photovoltaic materials, and significantly enhance their photocatalytic activities for solar-driven hydrogen evolution. Owing to the intrinsically weak intermolecular forces and the absence of molecular entanglement of small molecules, (sub)nanometer-scale diameters of polymer-free nanoparticles are yielded, representing a size reduction of 1-2 orders of magnitude than traditional polymer-containing nanoparticles. Optimized polymer-free nanoparticles attaching on covalent frameworks achieve photocatalytic mass-united hydrogen evolution rates of up to 527.2 ~ 3180.7 mmol h

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