2020

Nano-assemblies of a soluble conjugated organic polymer and an inorganic semiconductor for sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen production from water


Haofan Yang, Houari Amari, Lunjie Liu, Chengxi Zhao, Hui Gao, Ai He, Nigel Browning, Marc A. Little, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, and Andrew I. Cooper

Nanoscale 2020, doi.org/10.1039/D0NR05801G (link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/nr/d0nr05801g#!divAbstract)

 

Covalent Organic Framework Nanosheets Embedding Single Cobalt Sites for Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide


Xiaoyan Wang, Zhiwei Fu, Lirong Zheng, Chengxi Zhao, Xue Wang, Samantha Y. Chong, Fiona McBride, Rasmita Raval, Matthew Bilton, Lunjie Liu, Xiaofeng Wu, Linjiang Chen, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, and Andrew I. Cooper

Chem. Mater. 2020, 32, 21, 9107–9114 (link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01642)

Controlling Photocatalytic Activity by Self‐Assembly – Tuning Perylene Bisimide Photocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction


Daniel McDowall  Benjamin J. Greeves  Rob Clowes  Kate McAulay  Ana M. Fuentes‐Caparrós  Lisa Thomson  Nikul Khunti  Nathan Cowieson  Michael C. Nolan  Matthew Wallace  Andrew I. Cooper  Emily R. Draper  Alexander J. Cowan  Dave J. Adams

Adv. Energy Mater. 2020, 2002469 (link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.202002469)

Reprogramming bacterial protein organelles as a nanoreactor for hydrogen production


Tianpei Li, Qiuyao Jiang, Jiafeng Huang, Catherine M. Aitchison, Fang Huang, Mengru Yang, Gregory F. Dykes, Hai-Lun He, Qiang Wang, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper, and Lu-Ning Liu

Nat Commun 11, 5448 (2020) (link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19280-0)

Tracking Charge Transfer to Residual Metal Clusters in Conjugated Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution


Michael Sachs, Hyojung Cha, Jan Kosco, Catherine M. Aitchison, Laia Francàs, Sacha Corby, Chao-Lung Chiang, Anna A. Wilson, Robert Godin, Alexander Fahey-Williams, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Iain McCulloch, and James R. Durrant

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 34, 14574–14587

Structure-activity relationships in well-defined conjugated oligomer photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water


Catherine M. Aitchison, Michael Sachs, Marc A. Little, Liam Wilbraham, Nick J. Brownbill, Christopher M. Kane,  Frédéric Blanc, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, James R. Durrant, Reiner Sebastian Sprick and Andrew I. Cooper

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 8744-8756

Crosslinked Polyimide and Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites as Long Cycle Life Positive Electrode for Lithium‐Ion Cells


Hui Gao, Bingbing Tian,  Haofan Yang,  Alex R. Neale,  Marc A. Little,  Reiner Sebastian Sprick,  Laurence J. Hardwick, Andrew I. Cooper

ChemSusChem 2020, doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202001389

Photocatalyst Z-scheme system composed of a linear conjugated polymer and BiVO4 for overall water splitting under visible light


Yang Bai,   Keita Nakagawa,   Alexander Cowan,   Catherine M. Aitchison,   Yuichi Yamaguchi,   Martijn Zwijnenburg,   Akihiko Kudo,   Reiner Sebastian Sprick  and  Andrew Cooper  

J. Mater. Chem. A 10.1039/D0TA04754F

A mobile robotic chemist


Benjamin Burger, Phillip M Maffettone, Vladimir V Gusev, Catherine M Aitchison, Yang Bai, Xiaoyan Wang, Xiaobo Li, Ben M Alston, Buyi Li, Rob Clowes, Nicola Rankin, Brandon Harris, Reiner Sebastian Sprick and Andrew I Cooper

Nature, 583, 237–241(2020)

Water oxidation with cobalt‐loaded linear conjugated polymer photocatalysts


Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Zheng Chen, Alexander J Cowan, Yang Bai, Catherine M Aitchison, Yuanxing Fang, Martijn A Zwijnenburg, Andrew Ian Cooper and Xinchen Wang 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 10.1002/anie.202008000 

An Expandable Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework Characterized by Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction


Peng Cui, Erik Svensson Grape, Peter R Spackman, Yue Wu, Rob Clowes, Graeme M Day, A Ken Inge, Marc A Little and Andrew I Cooper

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 29, 12743–12750

Inducing social self‐sorting in organic cages to tune the shape of the internal cavity


Valentina Abet, Filip T Szczypínski, Marc A Little, Valentina Santolini, Christopher D Jones, Robert Evans, Craig Wilson, Xiaofeng Wu, Michael F Thorne, Michael J Bennison, Peng Cui, Andrew I Cooper, Kim E Jelfs and Anna Grace Slater

Angew. Chem. 2020, 132, 2 – 11

Conjugated polymer donor–molecular acceptor nanohybrids for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution


Haofan Yang, Xiaobo Li, Reiner Sebastian Sprick and Andrew I. Cooper

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article

Synthesis of Stable Thiazole-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks via a Multicomponent Reaction


Kewei Wang, Zhifang Jia, Yang Bai, Xue Wang, Sophie Hodgkiss, Linjiang Chen, Samantha Y. Chong, Xiaoyan Wang, Haofan Yang, Yongjie Xu, Feng Feng, John W. Ward, and Andrew I. Cooper

J. Am. Chem. Soc. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c03418

Inverse vulcanized polymers with shape memory, enhanced mechanical properties, and vitrimer behavior


Peiyao Yan, Wei Zhao, Bowen Zhang, Liang Jiang, Samuel Petcher, Jessica A. Smith, Douglas J. Parker, Andrew I. Cooper, Jingxin Lei and Tom Hasell

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 10.1002/anie.202004311

Continuous and Scalable Synthesis of a Porous Organic Cage by Twin Screw Extrusion (TSE)


Benjamin D. Egleston, Michael Christopher Brand, Francesca Greenwell, Michael E Briggs, Stuart James, Andrew Cooper, Deborah E. Crawford and Rebecca Greenaway

Chem. Sci., 2020, doi.org/10.1039/D0SC01858A

Side-chain tuning in conjugated polymer photocatalysts for improved hydrogen production from water


Duncan J Woods, Sam Hillman, Drew Pearce, Liam Wilbraham, Lucas Flagg, Warren Duffy, Iain Mcculloch, James Durrant, Anne Guilbert, Martijn Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Jenny Nelson and Andrew I. Cooper

Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0EE01213K

Photocatalytic Proton Reduction by a Computationally Identified, Molecular Hydrogen-Bonded Framework


Catherine M. Aitchison, Chris Kane, David P McMahon, Peter R. Spackman, Angeles Pulido, Xiaoyan Wang, Liam Wilbraham, Linjiang Chen, Rob Clowes, Martijn Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Marc Little, Graeme Matthew Day and Andrew I. Cooper

Journal of Materials Chemistry A. DOI: 10.1039/D0TA00219D

Controlling gas selectivity in molecular porous liquids by tuning the cage window size


Benjamin Egleston, Konstantin Luzyanin, Michael Brand, Rob Clowes, Michael Briggs, Rebecca L Greenaway, Andrew Cooper


Angew. Chem., 2020, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201914037