Assembly of donor–acceptor hybrid heterostructures based on iodoplumbates and viologen coordination polymers

The insertion of electron-rich iodoplumbate nanowires and nanolayers into layered electron-deficient metal-viologen frameworks leads to two donor–acceptor hybrid structures, respectively, which exhibit interesting semiconductor behaviors. Due to the bicontinuous donor and acceptor components, both of them exhibit highly efficient photocatalytic degradation activities over organic dyes under visible light irradiation compared to those of other iodoplumbate hybrid materials.