Polymer Photoelectrodes for Solar Fuel Production: Progress and Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Converting solar energy to fuels has attracted substantial interest over the past decades because it has the potential to sustainably meet the increasing global energy demand. However, achieving this potential requires significant technological advances. Polymer photoelectrodes are composed of earth-abundant elements, e.g. carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, which promise to be more economically sustainable than their inorganic counterparts. Furthermore, the electronic structure of polymer photoelectrodes can be more easily tuned to fit the solar spectrum than inorganic counterparts, promising a feasible practical application. As a fast-moving area, in particular, over the past ten years, we have witnessed an explosion of reports on polymer materials, including photoelectrodes, cocatalysts

SUBMITTER: Thangamuthu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9284560 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature