Journal
MATERIALS HORIZONS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages 1978-1983Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1mh01973b
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22075126]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee [JCYJ20200109141437586, JCYJ20180504165648211]
- Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR [019/2017/AMJ, 0114/2019/A2, 085/2020/A2]
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2021A1515111137]
- Jiangsu University
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This study designs and fabricates a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheet for piezocatalytic water splitting, highlighting the potential of MOF-based porous piezoelectric nanomaterials in driving chemical reactions.
Piezocatalysis, the process of directly converting mechanical energy into chemical energy, has emerged as a promising alternative strategy for green H-2 production. Nevertheless, conventional inorganic piezoelectric materials suffer from limited structural tailorability and small surface area, which greatly impedes their mechanically driven catalytic efficiency. Herein, we design and fabricate a novel UiO-66(Zr)-F-4 metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheet for piezocatalytic water splitting, with the highest H-2 evolution rate reaching 178.5 mu mol g(-1) within 5 h under ultrasonic vibration excitation (110 W, 40 kHz), far exceeding that of the original UiO-66 host. A reduced bandgap from 2.78 to 2.43 eV is achieved after introducing a fluorinated ligand. Piezoresponse force microscopy measurements demonstrate a much stronger piezoelectric response for UiO-66(Zr)-F-4, which may result from the polarity of the introduced fluorinated ligand. This work highlights the potential of MOF-based porous piezoelectric nanomaterials in harvesting mechanical energy to drive chemical reactions such as water splitting.
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