A 1,000-fold longer charge lifetime helps organic catalyst produce solar hydrogen faster
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Researchers at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering and Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of CAS developed an organic catalyst to improve solar hydrogen production efficiency via photocatalytic water splitting. This innovation could advance renewable energy technologies.
Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of CAS, have developed a coumarin-linked covalent organic framework (COF) that enables high-efficiency photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production.