Inside Front Cover: Band‐Gap Engineering of Isoreticular Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Frameworks for Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 19/2026)
Rational band-gap engineering in hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) remains challenging. Based on HOF-102, π extended donor–acceptor building units were designed to construct isoreticular HOFs with tunable band gaps (2.46–1.86 eV). The optimized HOF-1022(CN) exhibits enhanced charge transfer and suppressed recombination, achieving a hydrogen evolution rate of 168.2 mmol g−1 h−1 (8.5 fold increase) and an AQY of 7.3% at 420 nm. This first band-gap engineering of HOFs establishes a general design strategy for high performance photocatalysts, as reported in the Research Article (e25987) by Hongyu Chen, Peng Li, and co-workers.
Authors
- Yingjia Deng
- Xiangyu Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0465-7984)
- Yunke Jin
- Yunbo Bi
- Guanglai Mo
- Peng Li
- Qingyu Niu
- Jiabao Liu
- Chenghao Zhang
- Hongyu Chen
Institutions
- Guangxi University (CN)
- Hebei University of Technology (CN)
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2026-m2603032700
- Primary Topic
- Covalent Organic Framework Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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