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Synthetic Organic Design for Solar Fuel Systems
Author(s) -
Warnan Julien,
Reisner Erwin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.202006013
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , organic synthesis , conjugated system , organic solar cell , solar fuel , modularity (biology) , materials science , polymer , biochemical engineering , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , photocatalysis , engineering , biology , genetics
From the understanding of biological processes and metalloenzymes to the development of inorganic catalysts, electro‐ and photocatalytic systems for fuel generation have evolved considerably during the last decades. Recently, organic and hybrid organic systems have emerged to challenge the classical inorganic structures through their enormous chemical diversity and modularity that led earlier to their success in organic (opto)electronics. This Minireview describes recent advances in the design of synthetic organic architectures and promising strategies toward (solar) fuel synthesis, highlighting progress on materials from organic ligands and chromophores to conjugated polymers and covalent organic frameworks.