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      Metal-organic frameworks for artificial photosynthesis and photocatalysis.

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          Solar energy is an alternative, sustainable energy source for mankind. Finding a convenient way to convert sunlight energy into chemical energy is a key step towards realizing large-scale solar energy utilization. Owing to their structural regularity and synthetic tunability, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) provide an interesting platform to hierarchically organize light-harvesting antennae and catalytic centers to achieve solar energy conversion. Such photo-driven catalytic processes not only play a critical role in the solar to chemical energy conversion scheme, but also provide a novel methodology for the synthesis of fine chemicals. In this review, we summarize the fundamental principles of energy transfer and photocatalysis and provide an overview of the latest progress in energy transfer, light-harvesting, photocatalytic proton and CO2 reduction, and water oxidation using MOFs. The applications of MOFs in organic photocatalysis and degradation of model organic pollutants are also discussed.

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          Journal
          Chem Soc Rev
          Chemical Society reviews
          1460-4744
          0306-0012
          Aug 21 2014
          : 43
          : 16
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. wenbinlin@uchicago.edu.
          Article
          10.1039/c4cs00103f
          24769551
          91a61535-7616-4d11-8ef4-bd45b0bbe469
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