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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs)-based dyads are emerging photocatalysts in solar-driven hydrogen production, it is crucial to expose active sites and promote mass transfer for promoting photocatalytic efficiency. Herein, surfactant-induced dynamic pore-making strategy to construct noble-metal-free photocatalytic systems by combining the ketoenamine-linked COFs on the surface of spinel-structured CuCoS (CuCoS/TpPa-Cl) is developed. The open hierarchically porous dyads supply rich active sites and enough channels for mass transfer. Hydrogen evolution rate of CuCoS/TpPa-Cl is as high as 25.56 mmol g h under visible light irradiation, which significantly surpasses those in surfactant-free counterpart (1.63 mmol g h) and Pt-loaded TpPa-Cl (12.38 mmol g h). Apparent quantum efficiency at 420 nm reaches 2.24%. This study presents new protocols for constructing noble-metal-free COFs-based photocatalytic systems with efficient solar energy conversion.
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Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Chemical Measurement, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
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College of Chemistry and Materials Science, The key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, The Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Clean Energy of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materia
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Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Road, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China.
Formic acid (FA) has attracted significant interest as a renewable liquid-phase hydrogen carrier. Hydrogen generation from FA decomposition is essential for the development of hydrogen economy. Designing highly efficient catalysts with different coordination environments for FA dehydrogenation is crucial for fuel-cell applications.
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September 2025
KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
Metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) catalysts display considerable potential as cost-effective alternatives to noble metals in oxygen electrocatalysis. However, uncontrolled atomic migration and random structural rearrangement during pyrolysis often lead to disordered coordination environments and sparse active sites, fundamentally limiting their intrinsic catalytic activities and long-term durability. Herein, a novel strategy is reported for use in directionally regulating atomic migration pathways via the incorporation of a foreign metal (La).
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