Modification of Zr-based NH2-UiO-66 MOF by Incorporation of La2O3-based Nanomaterials as Efficient Photoelectrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) and Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Dyes
摘要
Development of low overpotential OER photoelectrocatalysts has caught much attention to delivers the 10 mAcm− 2 benchmark current density in alkaline medium. Therefore, we designed the highly efficient MOF-based OER photoelectrocatalyst by in-situ introduction of CoO/La2O3 nanocomposite into host NH2-UiO-66 via facile solvothermal method. The as prepared CoO/La2O3@NH2-UiO-66 displays efficient photo electrocatalytic OER-activity and required just 195 mV overpotential to deliver 10 mAcm− 2 current density in 1.0 M KOH electrolyte with lower Tafel slope value 73 mVdec− 1, which is higher than many of similar kind of OER catalysts. Meanwhile, it also exhibits satisfactory long-term stability. The increased photocatalytic activity of the in-situ incorporated nanomaterials into the host due to the synergistic and hetro-junction formation effect between the incorporated nanocomposite and the MOFs hosts. This designed efficient photoelectrocatalysts encourages the development of the new MOFs-based photoelectrocatalysts with low overpotential for water splitting and many other applications in future. Similarly, CoO/La2O3@NH2-UiO-66 delivered maximum photocatalytic efficiency for the photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO), up to 92% and 87% respectively.
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