Reiner Sebastian Sprick

Scopus Publications

Organic Materials for Biohybrid Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemical Devices
Mariia V. Pavliuk, Bin Cai, Larissa Kurth, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Gustav Berggren, Haining Tian
Chemical Reviews, 2026
The integration of biological catalysts with organic light-harvesting materials represents a rapidly advancing strategy for sustainable solar-to-chemical energy conversion. Recent advances demonstrate that photoexcited organic materials can effectively activate redox enzymes and whole-cell systems to catalyze fuel-forming reactions such as H2 evolution and CO2 fixation as well as selective oxidations and chiral transformations under mild conditions. This review summarizes recent advances in semiartificial photosynthesis driven by organic materials and presents a systematic overview of the major classes involved. In particular, it focuses on a) organic photosensitizers including molecular organic photosensitizers, carbon dots, graphene, carbon nitride, and organic aggregation nanoparticles (e.g., polymer dots/Pdots, molecule nanoparticles) as well as b) organic redox mediators. These materials are evaluated in terms of their photophysical properties, compatibility with biocatalysts, and their roles in photoinduced charge generation, charge separation, and interfacial electron transfer between abiotic and biotic components. Emerging trends toward mediator-free and water-driven systems, challenges related to photostability, biocompatibility, as well as paired redox catalysis generating value-added products are also discussed. Additionally, the effects of the sacrificial electron donor on biohybrid performance and development of biohybrid photoelectrochemical catalysis have been evaluated. Finally, this review aims to highlight the key scientific and technological questions that must be addressed to advance the field toward efficient, scalable, and environmentally benign biohybrid photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical platforms.
Backbone Heterojunction Photocatalysts for Efficient Sacrificial Hydrogen Production
Richard J. Lyons, Rhys J. Bourhill, Ewan McQueen, Sam D. Harding, Krzysztof Pawlak, Thomas Fellowes, Harry W. Capps, Alexander J. Cowan, Andrew I. Cooper, Adrian M. Gardner, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Advanced Functional Materials, 2026
A common strategy to improve the efficiency of organic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from aqueous mixtures is to create bulk heterojunction nanoparticles comprised of intermixed donor and acceptor phases that allow for efficient charge separation after photoexcitation. However, many of these systems possess poor stability due to aggregation of these nanoparticles under operating conditions. Moreover, the use of surfactants, that inhibit aggregation and promote donor–acceptor phase intermixing, can form an insulating barrier that reduces the photocatalytic efficiency of these nanoparticles. Here, these issues are bypassed by preparing a single‐component organic heterojunction‐type polymer, P40 , in which a molecular donor, pyrene, is tethered to poly(fluorene‐ co ‐dibenzo[ b , d ]thiophene sulfone), a conjugated polymer acceptor. By tethering the donor and acceptor together, phase intermixing is guaranteed without the need for costly post‐synthesis processing or insulating surfactants. Moreover, the influence of pyrene in P40 is determined to be multifaceted, as it influences the dynamics of the excited state, the aggregate microstructure, and the local solvent environment. P40 is found to have an exceptional external quantum efficiency of 38% at 420 nm in the presence of triethylamine as a hole scavenger, the highest value reported for any linear conjugated polymer to date for sacrificial hydrogen production.
Unraveling the mechanisms of charge-separation in a dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone polymer photocatalyst using time-resolved electronic absorption spectroscopy
Richard J. Lyons, Ewan McQueen, Rhys J. Bourhill, Owen Thwaites, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Alexander J. Cowan, Adrian M. Gardner
Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025
Organic polymer photocatalysts have gained much interest in recent years, largely because of their photocatalytic activity toward sacrificial hydrogen production from water. Time-resolved electronic absorption spectroscopy is commonly employed to understand the photophysical processes occurring following photon absorption, which in turn is used to rationalize photocatalytic activities. The homopolymer of dibenzo[b,d]thiophene sulfone (P10) is a well-studied and high performing photocatalyst for sacrificial hydrogen evolution from water. While sacrificial reagents are well documented as a prerequisite for this reaction, their roles in the picosecond–nanosecond photodynamics have yet to be determined using transient electronic signatures. By employing lifetime density analysis of time-resolved electronic absorption spectra of P10 in a variety of solvent mixtures, we show that the electron polaron (the required charge for hydrogen evolution) is produced on the 0.5–100 and 50–800 ps timescales via excitonic quenching by triethylamine and methanol, respectively, two common sacrificial electron donors. We conclude that there is significant pre-association of triethylamine with the P10 polymer, resulting in efficient excitonic quenching. This mechanism competes effectively with radiative excitonic relaxation, which occurs on similar timescales, reducing exciton losses and improving polaron yields.
Organic semiconductors for solar fuel production: Enhance and protect!
Ewan McQueen, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Joule, 2025
Recently, Daboczi et al. demonstrated anodes based on bulk heterojunction organic photoactive materials protected by graphite layers and loaded with NiFeOOH as a water oxidation catalyst showing remarkable photocurrent densities of up to 26.4 mA cm −2 at +1.23 V vs. NHE with excellent stability.
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction in aqueous media using a silver-loaded conjugated polymer and a Ru(II)-Ru(II) supramolecular photocatalyst
Noritaka Sakakibara, Ewan McQueen, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Osamu Ishitani
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2025
Visible-light-driven conversion of CO2 to useful products is a promising process for a more sustainable energy system in a circular economy. Whilst highly efficient, durable, and selective systems have been reported in organic media, the photocatalytic process performing efficiently in aqueous media is highly desirable for the purpose of its practical application. However, efficiency and selectivity for CO2 reduction versus proton reduction in aqueous solution have proven challenging to date. Herein, this study demonstrates the enablement of highly efficient and durable visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction to formate in aqueous media by a hybrid photocatalyst consisting of a silver-loaded conjugated polymer and a binuclear Ru(II) complex. The hybrid photocatalyst exhibited high activity and durability for formate production, with an apparent quantum yield of 4.2% at 460 nm and a turnover number of 38,000 (based on the amount of binuclear complexes adsorbed), both of which are the highest values reported amongst hybrid photocatalysts in aqueous media. Even though the conjugated polymer retains residual amounts of palladium from synthesis (which is an active site for H2 production in aqueous media), the loading of Ag nanoparticles onto the conjugated polymer enhanced the activity and selectivity for photocatalytic CO2 reduction by suppressing H2 production.
Visible-light-responsive hybrid photocatalysts for quantitative conversion of CO2 to highly concentrated formate solutions
Ewan McQueen, Noritaka Sakakibara, Kei Kamogawa, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Yusuke Tamaki, Osamu Ishitani, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Chemical Science, 2024
This highly efficient hybrid photocatalytic system can quantitatively convert CO 2 to formate and produce 0.4 M of formate solution without additional concentration enrichment.
Films of linear conjugated polymer as photoanodes for oxidation reactions
Shuming Chai, Shun Zhao, Jiaxin Su, Jinshui Zhang, Xiong Chen, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Yuanxing Fang
Chemical Science, 2024
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) devices hold huge potential to convert solar energy into chemical energy.
Non-conventional bulk heterojunction nanoparticle photocatalysts for sacrificial hydrogen evolution from water
Jai-Ram Mistry, Ewan McQueen, Fabio Nudelman, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Iain A. Wright
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024
Bulk heterojunction nanoparticles composed of simple electron-donor molecules and an electron-acceptor polymer act as photocatalysts for the generation of hydrogen from water. Performance is dictated by the terminal groups of the donor molecules.
Processing polymer photocatalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Richard Jack Lyons, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Materials Horizons, 2024
The processing of conjugated organic materials into films, nanoparticles, and nanofibers, presents significant opportunities to increase their activity for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and for scaled-up systems for real world applications.
Conjugated Polymer/Recombinant Escherichia coli Biohybrid Systems for Photobiocatalytic Hydrogen Production
Ying Yang, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Adrian M. Gardner, Sylwia Adamczyk, Jing Yang, Yaqi Sun, Qiuyao Jiang, Alexander J. Cowan, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Lu-Ning Liu, Andrew I. Cooper
ACS Nano, 2024
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Biohybrid photocatalysts are composite materials that combine the efficient light-absorbing properties of synthetic materials with the highly evolved metabolic pathways and self-repair mechanisms of biological systems. Here, we show the potential of conjugated polymers as photosensitizers in biohybrid systems by combining a series of polymer nanoparticles with engineered Escherichia coli cells. Under simulated solar light irradiation, the biohybrid system consisting of fluorene/dibenzo [ b,d ]thiophene sulfone copolymer (LP41) and recombinant E. coli (i.e., a LP41/HydA BL21 biohybrid) shows a sacrificial hydrogen evolution rate of 3.442 mmol g –1 h –1 (normalized to polymer amount). It is over 30 times higher than the polymer photocatalyst alone (0.105 mmol g –1 h –1 ), while no detectable hydrogen was generated from the E. coli cells alone, demonstrating the strong synergy between the polymer nanoparticles and bacterial cells. The differences in the physical interactions between synthetic materials and microorganisms, as well as redox energy level alignment, elucidate the trends in photochemical activity. Our results suggest that organic semiconductors may offer advantages, such as solution processability, low toxicity, and more tunable surface interactions with the biological components over inorganic materials.
Polymer Photocatalysts with Side Chain Induced Planarity for Increased Activity for Sacrificial Hydrogen Production from Water
Richard J. Lyons, Ying Yang, Ewan McQueen, Liang Luo, Andrew I. Cooper, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Advanced Energy Materials, 2024
Making the connections: physical and electric interactions in biohybrid photosynthetic systems
Ying Yang, Lu-Ning Liu, Haining Tian, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Energy and Environmental Science, 2023
Impact of Interfaces, and Nanostructure on the Performance of Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production from Water
Ewan McQueen, Yang Bai, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Nanomaterials, 2022
Why Do Sulfone-Containing Polymer Photocatalysts Work so Well for Sacrificial Hydrogen Evolution from Water?
Sam A. J. Hillman, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Drew Pearce, Duncan J. Woods, Wai-Yu Sit, Xingyuan Shi, Andrew I. Cooper, James R. Durrant, Jenny Nelson
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022
Linear conjugated polymer photocatalysts with various linker units for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water
Lunjie Liu, Michał A. Kochman, Wei Zhao, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Chemical Communications, 2022
Covalent triazine-based frameworks with cobalt-loading for visible light-driven photocatalytic water oxidation
Hongmei Chen, Adrian M. Gardner, Guoan Lin, Wei Zhao, Mounib Bahri, Nigel D. Browning, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Xiaobo Li, Xiaoxiang Xu, Andrew I. Cooper
Catalysis Science and Technology, 2022
Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Under Visible Light Enabled by a Particulate Conjugated Polymer Loaded with Palladium and Iridium**
Yang Bai, Chao Li, Lunjie Liu, Yuichi Yamaguchi, Mounib Bahri, Haofan Yang, Adrian Gardner, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Nigel D. Browning, Alexander J. Cowan, Akihiko Kudo, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022
Rational design of covalent organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production
Shuming Chai, Xiaowen Chen, Xirui Zhang, Yuanxing Fang, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Xiong Chen
Environmental Science Nano, 2022
Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks
Weiwei Zhang, Linjiang Chen, Sheng Dai, Chengxi Zhao, Cheng Ma, Lei Wei, Minghui Zhu, Samantha Y. Chong, Haofan Yang, Lunjie Liu, Yang Bai, Miaojie Yu, Yongjie Xu, Xiao-Wei Zhu, Qiang Zhu, Shuhao An, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Marc A. Little, Xiaofeng Wu, Shan Jiang, Yongzhen Wu, Yue-Biao Zhang, He Tian, Wei-Hong Zhu, Andrew I. Cooper
Nature, 2022
The potential scarcity, or not, of polymeric overall water splitting photocatalysts
Benedict Saunders, Liam Wilbraham, Andrew W. Prentice, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 2022
Conjugated Porphyrin Materials for Solar Fuel Generation
Yang Bai, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Current Organic Chemistry, 2022
Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Polaron Formation in a Polymer Photocatalyst
Verity L. Piercy, Khezar H. Saeed, Andrew W. Prentice, Gaia Neri, Chao Li, Adrian M. Gardner, Yang Bai, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Igor V. Sazanovich, Andrew I. Cooper, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Alexander J. Cowan
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021
Integrated Covalent Organic Framework/Carbon Nanotube Composite as Li-Ion Positive Electrode with Ultra-High Rate Performance
Hui Gao, Qiang Zhu, Alex R. Neale, Mounib Bahri, Xue Wang, Haofan Yang, Lunjie Liu, Rob Clowes, Nigel D. Browning, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Marc A. Little, Laurence J. Hardwick, Andrew I. Cooper
Advanced Energy Materials, 2021
Photocatalytic polymers of intrinsic microporosity for hydrogen production from water
Yang Bai, Liam Wilbraham, Hui Gao, Rob Clowes, Haofan Yang, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
Acetylene-linked conjugated polymers for sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water
Lunjie Liu, Michał A. Kochman, Yongjie Xu, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
Organic materials as photocatalysts for water splitting
Yang Bai, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
Effect of substituting non-polar chains with polar chains on the structural dynamics of small organic molecule and polymer semiconductors
Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Zachary S. Parr, Theo Kreouzis, Duncan J. Woods, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Isaac Abrahams, Christian B. Nielsen, Mohamed Zbiri
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021
Probing Dynamics of Water Mass Transfer in Organic Porous Photocatalyst Water-Splitting Materials by Neutron Spectroscopy
Mohamed Zbiri, Catherine M. Aitchison, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper, Anne A. Y. Guilbert
Chemistry of Materials, 2021
Photocatalytic syngas production using conjugated organic polymers
Zhiwei Fu, Anastasia Vogel, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
Bottom-up wet-chemical synthesis of a two-dimensional porous carbon material with high supercapacitance using a cascade coupling/cyclization route
Yongjie Xu, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Nick J. Brownbill, Frédéric Blanc, Qingyin Li, John W. Ward, Shijie Ren, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
Impact of Chemical Structure on the Dynamics of Mass Transfer of Water in Conjugated Microporous Polymers: A Neutron Spectroscopy Study
Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Yang Bai, Catherine M. Aitchison, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mohamed Zbiri
ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2021
Conjugated nanomaterials for solar fuel production
Catherine M. Aitchison, Reiner Sebastian Sprick
Nanoscale, 2021
Erratum: Tracking charge transfer to residual metal clusters in conjugated polymers for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution (Journal of the American Chemical Society (2020) 142:34 (14574-14587) DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06104)
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, James R. Durrant
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
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 D. Browning, Marc A. Little, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Nanoscale, 2020
Organic heterojunctions for direct solar fuel generation
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Marc A. Little, Andrew I. Cooper
Communications Chemistry, 2020
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, Lu-Ning Liu
Nature Communications, 2020
Photocatalytic hydrogen production performance of 1-D ZnO nanostructures: Role of structural properties
A. Galdámez-Martínez, Yang Bai, G. Santana, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, A. Dutt
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2020
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, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemistry of Materials, 2020
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
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 I. Cooper, Xinchen Wang
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020
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, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemical Science, 2020
Photocatalyst Z-scheme system composed of a linear conjugated polymer and BiVO4for overall water splitting under visible light
Yang Bai, Keita Nakagawa, Alexander J. Cowan, Catherine M. Aitchison, Yuichi Yamaguchi, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Akihiko Kudo, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020
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, James R. Durrant
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020
Publisher Correction: Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts (Nature Energy, (2019), 4, 9, (746-760), 10.1038/s41560-019-0456-5)
Yiou Wang, Anastasia Vogel, Michael Sachs, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Liam Wilbraham, Savio J. A. Moniz, Robert Godin, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, James R. Durrant, Andrew I. Cooper, Junwang Tang
Nature Energy, 2020
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, Andrew I. Cooper
Nature, 2020
Conjugated polymer donor-molecular acceptor nanohybrids for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Haofan Yang, Xiaobo Li, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemical Communications, 2020
Side-chain tuning in conjugated polymer photocatalysts for improved hydrogen production from water
Duncan J. Woods, Sam A. J. Hillman, Drew Pearce, Liam Wilbraham, Lucas Q. Flagg, Warren Duffy, Iain McCulloch, James R. Durrant, Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Jenny Nelson, Andrew I. Cooper
Energy and Environmental Science, 2020
Hydrogen evolution from water using heteroatom substituted fluorene conjugated co-polymers
Yang Bai, Duncan J. Woods, Liam Wilbraham, Catherine M. Aitchison, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020
Polymer photocatalysts with plasma-enhanced activity
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Kieran J. Cheetham, Yang Bai, Jesum Alves Fernandes, Michael Barnes, James W. Bradley, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020
Photocatalytic proton reduction by a computationally identified, molecular hydrogen-bonded framework
Catherine M. Aitchison, Christopher M. Kane, David P. McMahon, Peter R. Spackman, Angeles Pulido, Xiaoyan Wang, Liam Wilbraham, Linjiang Chen, Rob Clowes, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Marc A. Little, Graeme M. Day, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020
A stable covalent organic framework for photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction
Zhiwei Fu, Xiaoyan Wang, Adrian M. Gardner, Xue Wang, Samantha Y. Chong, Gaia Neri, Alexander J. Cowan, Lunjie Liu, Xiaobo Li, Anastasia Vogel, Rob Clowes, Matthew Bilton, Linjiang Chen, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemical Science, 2020
Structurally Diverse Covalent Triazine-Based Framework Materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Christian B. Meier, Rob Clowes, Enrico Berardo, Kim E. Jelfs, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemistry of Materials, 2019
Aromatic polymers made by reductive polydehalogenation of oligocyclic monomers as conjugated polymers of intrinsic microporosity (C-PIMs)
Patrick Klein, Hauke J. Jötten, Catherine M. Aitchison, Rob Clowes, Eduard Preis, Andrew I. Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Ullrich Scherf
Polymer Chemistry, 2019
Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts
Yiou Wang, Anastasia Vogel, Michael Sachs, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Liam Wilbraham, Savio J. A. Moniz, Robert Godin, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, James R. Durrant, Andrew I. Cooper, Junwang Tang
Nature Energy, 2019
Accelerated Discovery of Organic Polymer Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution from Water through the Integration of Experiment and Theory
Yang Bai, Liam Wilbraham, Benjamin J. Slater, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water Using Fluorene and Dibenzothiophene Sulfone-Conjugated Microporous and Linear Polymers
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Yang Bai, Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Mohamed Zbiri, Catherine M. Aitchison, Liam Wilbraham, Yong Yan, Duncan J. Woods, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemistry of Materials, 2019
Emulsion polymerization derived organic photocatalysts for improved light-driven hydrogen evolution
Catherine M. Aitchison, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019
Mapping binary copolymer property space with neural networks
Liam Wilbraham, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Kim E. Jelfs, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
Chemical Science, 2019
Metal-organic conjugated microporous polymer containing a carbon dioxide reduction electrocatalyst
Charlotte L. Smith, Rob Clowes, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper, Alexander J. Cowan
Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 2019
Photocatalytically active ladder polymers
Anastasia Vogel, Mark Forster, Liam Wilbraham, Charlotte L. Smith, Alexander J. Cowan, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Faraday Discussions, 2019
Demonstrator devices for artificial photosynthesis: General discussion
Ryu Abe, Catherine M. Aitchison, Virgil Andrei, Matthias Beller, Daniel Cheung, Charles E. Creissen, Víctor A. de la Peña O’Shea, James R. Durrant, Michael Grätzel, Leif Hammarström, Sophia Haussener, Su-Il In, Evangelos Kalamaras, Akihiko Kudo, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Pramod Patil Kunturu, Yi-Hsuan Lai, Chong-Yong Lee, Marcelino Maneiro, Esther Edwardes Moore, Huu Chuong Nguyen, Aubrey R. Paris, Chanon Pornrungroj, Joost N. H. Reek, Erwin Reisner, Murielle Schreck, Wilson A. Smith, Han Sen Soo, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Anirudh Venugopal, Qian Wang, Dominik Wielend, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
Faraday Discussions, 2019
Synthetic approaches to artificial photosynthesis: General discussion
Catherine M. Aitchison, Virgil Andrei, Daniel Antón-García, Ulf-Peter Apfel, Vivek Badiani, Matthias Beller, Andrew B. Bocarsly, Sylvestre Bonnet, Peter Brueggeller, Christine A. Caputo, Flavia Cassiola, Simon T. Clausing, Andrew I. Cooper, Charles E. Creissen, Víctor A. de la Peña O’Shea, Wolfgang Domcke, James R. Durrant, Michael Grätzel, Leif Hammarström, Anna Hankin, Marta C. Hatzell, Ferdi Karadas, Burkhard König, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Sarah Lamaison, Chia-Yu Lin, Marcelino Maneiro, Shelley D. Minteer, Aubrey R. Paris, Ernest Pastor, Chanon Pornrungroj, Joost N. H. Reek, Erwin Reisner, Souvik Roy, Constantin Sahm, Ravi Shankar, Wendy J. Shaw, Sergii I. Shylin, Wilson A. Smith, Katarzyna Sokol, Han Sen Soo, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Wolfgang Viertl, Anastasia Vogel, Andreas Wagner, David Wakerley, Qian Wang, Dominik Wielend, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
Faraday Discussions, 2019
Sulfone-containing covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water
Xiaoyan Wang, Linjiang Chen, Samantha Y. Chong, Marc A. Little, Yongzhen Wu, Wei-Hong Zhu, Rob Clowes, Yong Yan, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Nature Chemistry, 2018
Understanding structure-activity relationships in linear polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution
Michael Sachs, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Drew Pearce, Sam A. J. Hillman, Adriano Monti, Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Nick J. Brownbill, Stoichko Dimitrov, Xingyuan Shi, Frédéric Blanc, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Jenny Nelson, James R. Durrant, Andrew I. Cooper
Nature Communications, 2018
Nitrogen Containing Linear Poly(phenylene) Derivatives for Photo-catalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Liam Wilbraham, Yang Bai, Pierre Guiglion, Adriano Monti, Rob Clowes, Andrew I. Cooper, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
Chemistry of Materials, 2018
Structural Elucidation of Amorphous Photocatalytic Polymers from Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Solid State NMR
Nick J. Brownbill, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Baltasar Bonillo, Shane Pawsey, Fabien Aussenac, Alistair J. Fielding, Andrew I. Cooper, Frédéric Blanc
Macromolecules, 2018
Corrigendum to: Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Planarized Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, (2016), 55, 5, (1792-1796), 10.1002/anie.201510542)
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Baltasar Bonillo, Rob Clowes, Pierre Guiglion, Nick J. Brownbill, Benjamin J. Slater, Frédéric Blanc, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Dave J. Adams, Andrew I. Cooper
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018
Maximising the hydrogen evolution activity in organic photocatalysts by co-polymerisation
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Catherine M. Aitchison, Enrico Berardo, Lukas Turcani, Liam Wilbraham, Ben M. Alston, Kim E. Jelfs, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018
A Solution-Processable Polymer Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Duncan J. Woods, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Charlotte L. Smith, Alexander J. Cowan, Andrew I. Cooper
Advanced Energy Materials, 2017
Structure-property relationships for covalent triazine-based frameworks: The effect of spacer length on photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water
Christian B. Meier, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Adriano Monti, Pierre Guiglion, Jet-Sing M. Lee, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Andrew I. Cooper
Polymer, 2017
Tuning Photophysical Properties in Conjugated Microporous Polymers by Comonomer Doping Strategies
Baltasar Bonillo, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemistry of Materials, 2016
Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Planarized Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Baltasar Bonillo, Rob Clowes, Pierre Guiglion, Nick J. Brownbill, Benjamin J. Slater, Frédéric Blanc, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Dave J. Adams, Andrew I. Cooper
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016
Extended conjugated microporous polymers for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Baltasar Bonillo, Michael Sachs, Rob Clowes, James R. Durrant, Dave J. Adams, Andrew I. Cooper
Chemical Communications, 2016
Tunable organic photocatalysts for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Jia-Xing Jiang, Baltasar Bonillo, Shijie Ren, Thanchanok Ratvijitvech, Pierre Guiglion, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Dave J. Adams, Andrew I. Cooper
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015
Conjugated polymers of intrinsic microporosity (C-PIMs)
Ge Cheng, Baltasar Bonillo, Reiner S. Sprick, Dave J. Adams, Tom Hasell, Andrew I. Cooper
Advanced Functional Materials, 2014
Extended conjugation in poly(triarylamine)s: Synthesis, structure and impact on field-effect mobility
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mario Hoyos, Marion Sofia Wrackmeyer, Adam Valentine Sheridan Parry, Iain Mark Grace, Colin Lambert, Oscar Navarro, Michael Lewis Turner
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014
A simple method for controllable solution doping of complete polymer field-effect transistors
Ian D. V. Ingram, Daniel J. Tate, Adam V. S. Parry, R. Sebastian Sprick, Michael L. Turner
Applied Physics Letters, 2014
(N-Heterocyclic carbene)Pd(triethylamine)Cl2 as precatalyst for the synthesis of poly(triarylamine)s
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mario Hoyos, Ming-Tsz Chen, Michael Lewis Turner, Oscar Navarro
Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, 2013
Triarylamine polymers of bridged phenylenes by (N-heterocyclic carbene)-palladium catalysed C-N coupling
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mario Hoyos, John James Morrison, Iain Mark Grace, Colin Lambert, Oscar Navarro, Michael Lewis Turner
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2013
(N-heterocyclic carbene)-Pd catalyzed synthesis of poly(triarylamine)s by Buchwald-Hartwig coupling of aryl chlorides
Mario Hoyos, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Chao Wang, Michael Lewis Turner, Oscar Navarro
Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, 2012
Synthesis of poly(triarylamine)s by C-N coupling catalyzed by (N-heterocyclic carbene)-palladium complexes
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mario Hoyos, Oscar Navarro, Michael Lewis Turner
Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2012
Acid catalyzed synthesis of carbonyl-functionalized microporous ladder polymers with high surface area
Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Arne Thomas, Ullrich Scherf
Polymer Chemistry, 2010

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