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Nano Research 2023, 16(7): 8970-8976 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5626-x
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Post-modification of MOF to fabricate single-atom dispersed hollow nanocages catalysts for enhancing CO2 conversion

Show Author's Information Ruirui Yun( ),  Ruiming Xu,  Changsong Shi,  Beibei Zhang,  Tuanhui Li,  Lei He,  Tian Sheng( ),  Zheng Chen( )
The key laboratory of functional molecular solids Ministry of Education, College of chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 214001, China
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post-modification, electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, atomically dispersed sites, hollow nanocage
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Yun R, Xu R, Shi C, et al. Post-modification of MOF to fabricate single-atom dispersed hollow nanocages catalysts for enhancing CO2 conversion. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 8970-8976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5626-x
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During the catalytic process, the microenvironment and surface area of the catalyst will affect the catalytic performance. Hence, an assisted organic linker coated metal-organic framework (MOF) has been applied, to form Ni/HNC (HNC represents hollow nanocage) for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Remarkably, Ni/HNC achieves superb activity with high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 97.2% at 0.7 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) towards CO2 conversion to CO. In contrast to Ni/NPC (afforded from the naked MOF), the Ni/HNC displays higher FE and selectivity on CO rather than H2, owing to the large nanocage which extraordinarily facilitates CO2 enrichment and the active sites easily accessible. This work provides a general and feasible route to construct high-efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (EC-CO2RR) catalysts via post-modified MOFs.


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Post-modification of MOF to fabricate single-atom dispersed hollow nanocages catalysts for enhancing CO2 conversion

Show Author's information Ruirui Yun( ), Ruiming Xu, Changsong Shi, Beibei Zhang, Tuanhui Li, Lei He, Tian Sheng( ), Zheng Chen( )
The key laboratory of functional molecular solids Ministry of Education, College of chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 214001, China

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During the catalytic process, the microenvironment and surface area of the catalyst will affect the catalytic performance. Hence, an assisted organic linker coated metal-organic framework (MOF) has been applied, to form Ni/HNC (HNC represents hollow nanocage) for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Remarkably, Ni/HNC achieves superb activity with high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 97.2% at 0.7 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) towards CO2 conversion to CO. In contrast to Ni/NPC (afforded from the naked MOF), the Ni/HNC displays higher FE and selectivity on CO rather than H2, owing to the large nanocage which extraordinarily facilitates CO2 enrichment and the active sites easily accessible. This work provides a general and feasible route to construct high-efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (EC-CO2RR) catalysts via post-modified MOFs.

Keywords: post-modification, electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, atomically dispersed sites, hollow nanocage

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Received: 31 January 2023
Revised: 23 February 2023
Accepted: 27 February 2023
Published: 14 April 2023
Issue date: July 2023

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 21401004), the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Nos. 1508085QB36 and 2008085MB52), the Key Research and Development Projects of Anhui Province (No. 2022a05020048), the Open Foundation of Anhui Laboratory of Molecule-based Materials (No. fzj19005), and the National Creative Plan of Students (No. 202110370044).

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