Quasi-ZIF-67 for Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalytic Activity via a Low Temperature Calcination.

Zhu, Rongmei; Ding, Jiawei; Yang, Jinpeng; Pang, Huan; Xu, Qiang; Zhang, Daliang; Braunstein, Pierre

Quasi-ZIF-67 for Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalytic Activity via a Low Temperature Calcination.

Embargo End Date

2021-05-08

Type

Article

Authors

Zhu, Rongmei
Ding, Jiawei
Yang, Jinpeng
Pang, Huan

Xu, Qiang

Zhang, Daliang
Braunstein, Pierre

KAUST Department

Electron Microscopy

Online Publication Date

2020-05-07

Print Publication Date

2020-06-03

Date

2020-05-07

Submitted Date

2020-03-26

Abstract

Exposing catalytically active metal sites in metal-organic frameworks with maintained porosity could accelerate electron transfer, leading to improved performances in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Here, we report a series of quasi-ZIF-67 obtained from low temperature calcination of ZIF-67 for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and reveal the nanostructural structure via the spherical aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. The quasi-ZIF-67-350 not only possesses a large Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 2038.2 m2·g-1 but also presents an extremely low charge-transfer resistance of 15.0 Ω. In catalyzing the OER process, quasi-ZIF-67-350 displays a low overpotential of 286 mV at 10 mA cm-2 in the electrolyte of 1.0 M KOH. The acquired quasi-ZIF-67 demonstrates a high catalytic activity in OER, and the controlled calcination strategy undoubtedly paves a way in synthesizing low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts.

Citation

Zhu, R., Ding, J., Yang, J., Pang, H., Xu, Q., Zhang, D., & Braunstein, P. (2020). Quasi-ZIF-67 for Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalytic Activity via a Low Temperature Calcination. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. doi:10.1021/acsami.0c05450

Acknowledgements

This work was supported from the Program for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. NSFC21901221, U1904215, and 21875207), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (grant no. BK20190870), and Lvyangjinfeng Talent Program of Yangzhou. The authors acknowledge the technical support received at the Testing Centre of Yangzhou University.