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Highly dispersed Pt clusters encapsulated in MIL-125-NH2 via in situ auto-reduction method for photocatalytic H2 production under visible light

Show Author's Information Xiubing Huang§( ),  Xiangjun Li§,  Qingjie Luan§,  Kaiyue Zhang,  Zhenyu Wu,  Baozhen Li,  Zuoshuai Xi,  Wenjun Dong,  Ge Wang( )
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering Beijing Key Laboratory of Function Materials for Molecule & Structure Construction School of Materials Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 10083 China

§Xiubing Huang, Xiangjun Li, and Qingjie Luan contributed equally to this work

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visible light, Pt clusters, MIL-125-NH2, in situ auto-reduction method, photocatalytic H2 production
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Efficient hydrogen production via photocatalysis with high utilization efficiency of Pt cocatalyst is of great importance for sustainable development. In this work, we report an in situ auto-reduction strategy to encapsulate highly dispersed Pt clusters inside the cages of MIL-125-NH2. The amino groups in MIL-125-NH2 first react with formaldehyde to form reducing groups (i.e., –NH-CH2OH), which can in situ auto-reduce the confined Pt2+ ions to ultrasmall Pt clusters within the cavities. With optimized Pt content, photocatalytic H2 production over the obtained Pt(1.5)/MIL-125-NH-CH2OH catalyst with 1.43 wt.% Pt loading achieved as high as 4, 496.4 µmol·g−1·h−1 under visible light (λ > 420 nm) due to the facilitated transfer and separation of the photo-induced charger carriers arising from the synergetic effects between highly dispersed Pt clusters and MIL-125-NH-CH2OH framework. This in situ auto-reduction strategy may be extended to encapsulate various kinds of metal or alloy clusters/nanoparticles within amino-functioned metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with superior properties and excellent performance.


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Highly dispersed Pt clusters encapsulated in MIL-125-NH2 via in situ auto-reduction method for photocatalytic H2 production under visible light

Show Author's information Xiubing Huang§( ), Xiangjun Li§, Qingjie Luan§, Kaiyue Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Baozhen Li, Zuoshuai Xi, Wenjun Dong, Ge Wang( )
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering Beijing Key Laboratory of Function Materials for Molecule & Structure Construction School of Materials Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 10083 China

§Xiubing Huang, Xiangjun Li, and Qingjie Luan contributed equally to this work

Abstract

Efficient hydrogen production via photocatalysis with high utilization efficiency of Pt cocatalyst is of great importance for sustainable development. In this work, we report an in situ auto-reduction strategy to encapsulate highly dispersed Pt clusters inside the cages of MIL-125-NH2. The amino groups in MIL-125-NH2 first react with formaldehyde to form reducing groups (i.e., –NH-CH2OH), which can in situ auto-reduce the confined Pt2+ ions to ultrasmall Pt clusters within the cavities. With optimized Pt content, photocatalytic H2 production over the obtained Pt(1.5)/MIL-125-NH-CH2OH catalyst with 1.43 wt.% Pt loading achieved as high as 4, 496.4 µmol·g−1·h−1 under visible light (λ > 420 nm) due to the facilitated transfer and separation of the photo-induced charger carriers arising from the synergetic effects between highly dispersed Pt clusters and MIL-125-NH-CH2OH framework. This in situ auto-reduction strategy may be extended to encapsulate various kinds of metal or alloy clusters/nanoparticles within amino-functioned metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with superior properties and excellent performance.

Keywords: visible light, Pt clusters, MIL-125-NH2, in situ auto-reduction method, photocatalytic H2 production

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Received: 01 April 2021
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Published: 14 July 2021
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We acknowledge the financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51802015), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. FRF-TP-20-005A3), and Interdisciplinary Research Project for Young Teachers of USTB (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (No. FRF-IDRY-19-020).

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