Raynergy Tek’s Organic Semiconductors (OSCs) could participate in hydrogen generation! Our OSCs served as photocatalysts for visible-light-driven boosting efficiency and stability!
2023/3/1
Photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen generation are seeing a new wave of interests as it allows converting solar energy into chemical energy, and membrane-based operations could offer the possibility to achieve one-step hydrogen generation from water splitting at ambient temperature without needing further energy inputs, contributing to a so called “clean Hydrogen Economy”. Therefore, the pursuit of innovative photocatalysts which can enhance the photocatalytic activity is imperative and continuously gain increased interests in R&D of Hydrogen generation.
In collaboration with Prof. Ho-Hsiu Chou from National Tsing Hua University, Prof. Chou successfully developed a hydrogen energy technology that utilizes Raynergy Tek’s proprietary conjugated polymer dots (Pdots) as organic photocatalysts, enhancing the efficiency and stability of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, which is an encouraging R&D results to advance the large-scale hydrogen production. We are particularly proud that this specific work has been published in Macromolecules, December 2022. Excitingly, this work was selected as the Front Cover of Macromolecules in February 28, 2023 (Volume 56, Issue 4).
To read more details on the research finding of how to use OSCs as the photocatalysts, please visit: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02130
For further question, you may contact Prof. Chou hhchou@mx.nthu.edu.tw for more information.