A Clean and General Strategy To Decorate a Titanium Metal Organic Framework with Noble-Metal Nanoparticles for Versatile Photocatalytic Applications

We demonstrate a facile and general approach for the fabrication of highly dispersed Au, Pd, and Pt nanoparticles (NPs) on MIL-125(Ti) without using extra reducing and capping agents. Noble-metal NP formation is directed by an in situ redox reaction between the reductive MIL-125(Ti) with Ti3+ and oxidative metal salt precursors. The resulting composites function as efficient photocatalysts.