Metal-Free Organic Optoelectronic Molecule as a Highly Efficient Photocatalyst for the Degradation of Organic Pollutants.

ABSTRACT: With the increasing consumption of natural resources, photocatalysis converting solar energy to chemical energy has attracted extensive attention of researchers owing to the advantages of developing energy-saving and environmentally benign processes. In this work, a facile and simple method was developed to synthesize a metal-free organic optoelectronic molecule (denoted as DPPRD), which is composed of a central diketopyrrolopyrrole moiety and two terminal units of a rhodanine (RD) moiety. This is a first green strategy toward the synthesis of DPPRD. Because of good thermal stability, narrow band gap, and excellent visible light absorption of solar spectrum, DPPRD exhibited to be an efficient and chemically stable photocatalyst for visible light degradation of organic pollutants such as bi

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6648016 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature