Abstract
AbstractIt is well known that charge separation is crucial for efficient photocatalytic solar conversion. Although some covalent‐organic frameworks (COFs) exhibit visible‐light harvest, the large exciton binding energies reduce their photocatalytic efficiencies. Herein, we developed a novel method to post‐treat the olefin‐linked COFs with end‐capping polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) for spontaneous charge separation. Interestingly, a type‐II heterostructure is constructed in our perylene‐modified COFs which displays drastically enhanced performance for photocatalytic CO2 reduction, with an efficiency of 8‐fold higher than that of unmodified COF. A combination of electrochemical, steady‐state, and time‐resolved spectroscopic measurements indicates that such drastically enhanced performance should be attributed to photoinduced spontaneous charge separation in the heterostructure. These results illustrate the feasibility of engineering the charge‐separation properties of crystalline porous frameworks at a molecular level for artificial photosynthesis.
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