Polymeric coatings for the electrocatalytic and photoelectrosynthetic fuel production
In a new article, researchers highlight selected examples of polymeric materials utilised in electrocatalytic and photoelectrosynthetic fuel production.
Applications of polymeric coatings have emerged as a promising direction for preparing multilayered assemblies and controlling surface properties. In addition to providing a foundation for interfacing soft materials onto solid supports, polymers afford opportunities to develop hybrid constructs with properties difficult to achieve using monolayer-based chemical modification methods.
Use for electrocatalytic and photoelectrosynthetic fuel production
In particular, the microenvironments of polymers are proposed to facilitate charge transfer to redox-active sites, manage delivery of chemical substrates, improve product specificity during catalytic transformations, and lend chemical protection to underpinning solid-state supports as well as embedded components.
The study is published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, Issue 44.
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