Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), whose heterogeneous backbones can be easily tuned at the molecular level, are promising photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis. Sulfone-rich crystalline, wettable COFs have now been shown to exhibit high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rates with platinum nanoparticles as co-catalysts.
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Banerjee, T., Lotsch, B.V. The wetter the better. Nature Chem 10, 1175–1177 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0176-7
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