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Synthesis of transition metal oxide incorporated MOF-5 and NH2-MOF-5 as efficient photoanode for oxygen evolution reaction

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Development of a highly active, stable, and facile-synthesized photoelectrocatalyst for water oxidation (OER) is very challenging and has attracted great research attention. In this article, highly efficient MOF-based photoelectrocatalysts (MOF-5 and amine-functionalized MOF (NH2-MOF-5)) have been synthesized at room temperature and have been successfully characterized. For the photoelectrochemical studies, working electrodes are prepared by coating the synthesized photoelectrocatalysts on Ni-foam. All the synthesized materials have been successfully characterized via powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, elemental mapping, and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. Photoelectrochemical measurements for oxygen evolution reaction are performed via cyclic voltammetry and linear sweep voltammetry. It has been observed that among all the synthesized catalysts, Co3O4@NH2-MOF-5/NF has emerged as an efficient, stable, and highly active photoelectrocatalyst towards oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as compared to all other synthesized catalysts. It requires just 223 mV overpotential to deliver the 10 mA cm−2 current density and exhibits the lowest Tafel slope 52 mV dec−1 as compared to all other synthesized samples and some of the previously reported catalysts. Furthermore, long-term catalytic stability is studied via continuous linear sweep voltammetry and chronoamperometric measurements. This study encourages the development of a more efficient MOF-based catalyst for different photoelectrochemical studies.

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The authors acknowledge Prof. Duncan H. Gregory, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK, for providing the lab facilities.

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    Muhammad Fiaz, Dilshad Hussain & Muhammad Athar

  2. HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

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Fiaz, M., Hussain, D. & Athar, M. Synthesis of transition metal oxide incorporated MOF-5 and NH2-MOF-5 as efficient photoanode for oxygen evolution reaction. Ionics 27, 759–770 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-020-03866-1

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