Issue 9, 2022

Regulating the coordination environment of a metal–organic framework for an efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

Abstract

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a vital role in fuel cells, water splitting and metal–air batteries. Efficient electrocatalysts could overcome the higher overpotential of the OER, improve electron transfer efficiency, and promote water decomposition. In this work, a novel metal–organic framework (MOF) with efficient OER electrocatalytic performance (defined as FeCo-L1L2) was successfully prepared by a free assembly of metal ions (Fe and Co), 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid (defined as L1) and 4,6-dihydroxyisophthalic acid (defined as L2). The overpotential was only 283 mV at the current density conditions of 10 mA cm−2 with a Tafel slope of 31.6 mV dec−1. Its excellent OER performance is attributed to the synergistic effect of the bimetals of FeCo-L1L2 and the coordination environment optimization created by the dual ligands. This work not only improved the catalytic performance of MOFs in the OER but also proposed a new strategy for the structural design of MOFs.

Graphical abstract: Regulating the coordination environment of a metal–organic framework for an efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Jun 2022
Accepted
11 Aug 2022
First published
12 Aug 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Energy Adv., 2022,1, 641-647

Regulating the coordination environment of a metal–organic framework for an efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

E. Lv, J. Yong, J. Wen, Z. Song, Y. Liu, U. Khan and J. Gao, Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 641 DOI: 10.1039/D2YA00140C

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