Polymer-Based Materials for Photocatalysts
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 164
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer-based photocatalysts have been proposed as a promising sustainable approach in energy conversion, environmental remediation, and biomedical science, due to their synthetic variety, structure diversity, and adjustable electronic structures. Many strategies, such as the tuning of building blocks, doping, surface modifying, and combining with other nanomaterials or molecules, can control the physicochemical properties of polymer-based photocatalysts. However, the high recombination rate of photoexcited charge carriers and their low quantum efficiency still pose challenges for the application of polymer-based photocatalysts in the field of photocatalysis. Moreover, the stability of polymer-based photocatalysts in the photocatalytic process should also be considered a topic of concern. This Special Issue will focus on the structure design, novel synthetic methods, structure–property relationship, and application of polymer-based photocatalysts.
Dr. Yu Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photocatalysis
- conducting polymer
- natural polymer
- synthetic polymer
- conjugated polymer
- polymeric nanocomposites
- hydrogen evolution
- CO2 reduction
- nitrogen fixation
- photocatalytic synthesis
- the degradation of pollutants
- photodynamic therapy
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