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Li X, Zhao X, Zhang L, Mathur A, Xu Y, Fang Z, Gu L, Liu Y, Liu Y. Redox-tunable isoindigos for electrochemically mediated carbon capture. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1175. [PMID: 38331931 PMCID: PMC10853560 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45410-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Efficient CO2 separation technologies are essential for mitigating climate change. Compared to traditional thermochemical methods, electrochemically mediated carbon capture using redox-tunable sorbents emerges as a promising alternative due to its versatility and energy efficiency. However, the undesirable linear free-energy relationship between redox potential and CO2 binding affinity in existing chemistry makes it fundamentally challenging to optimise key sorbent properties independently via chemical modifications. Here, we demonstrate a design paradigm for electrochemically mediated carbon capture sorbents, which breaks the undesirable scaling relationship by leveraging intramolecular hydrogen bonding in isoindigo derivatives. The redox potentials of isoindigos can be anodically shifted by >350 mV to impart sorbents with high oxygen stability without compromising CO2 binding, culminating in a system with minimised parasitic reactions. With the synthetic space presented, our effort provides a generalisable strategy to finetune interactions between redox-active organic molecules and CO2, addressing a longstanding challenge in developing effective carbon capture methods driven by non-conventional stimuli.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xing Li
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Macao Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (MIMSE), Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, 999078, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
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Dai Z, Zhang D, Zhang H. Design, Synthesis, and Application in OFET of a Quinoxaline-Based D-A Conjugated Polymer. Front Chem 2022; 10:934203. [PMID: 35783214 PMCID: PMC9244549 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.934203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A novel alternating donor–acceptor polymer PQ1 is designed and synthesized by palladium-catalyzed Stille coupling between quinoxaline as an electron-deficient unit and indacenodithiophene (IDT) as electron-rich groups. Polymer PQ1 presents not only a strong intramolecular charge transfer effect, which is beneficial for the charge transport within single molecules but also a narrow electrochemical band gap and a high highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level. In addition, the optical absorption study indicates that the PQ1 film exhibits good aggregation, which is an advantage for the charge transport between neighboring molecules. As a consequence, PQ1 presents p-type semiconductor properties with a high hole mobility of up to 0.12 cm2 V−1 s−1. This study reveals the great potential of quinoxaline-type chromophores in constructing novel organic semiconductors.
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- Zhicheng Dai
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics of Ministry of Education/Shandong Province (QUST), School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering of Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics of Ministry of Education/Shandong Province (QUST), School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- *Correspondence: Haichang Zhang,
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Synthesis of new substituted 7-azaisoindigos. RESULTS IN CHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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