Research progress of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs for photocatalytic hydrogen production

doi:10.1007/s11708-021-0765-9

Front. Energy

2021, Vol. 15

Issue (3) : 656-666 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-021-0765-9

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Research progress of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Yating WANG¹, Chaosheng PENG¹, Tao JIANG¹(

), Xingang LI²(

)

¹. School of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China
². School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

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Abstract

In recent years, defect-engineered Zr-based UiO-66 metal-organic frameworks (UiO-66(Zr) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)) have shown huge advantages in catalytic, functional materials, adsorption, and other fields due to their large surface areas, well-ordered porous structures, and flexible tailorability. It is extremely challenging to introduce defect sites in the synthesis of MOFs to regulate the physicochemical properties of materials such as (energy band structure, pore structure, etc.) to obtain an excellent performance. This paper reviews the recent research results of synthesis methods, characterization technologies, and application fields of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs materials in order to provide new insights to synthesize high-performance UiO-66(Zr) MOFs materials and promote the development of UiO-66(Zr) in various fields.

Keywords defect engineering metal-organic frameworks UiO-66 photocatalysis

Corresponding Author(s): Tao JIANG,Xingang LI

Online First Date: 04 August 2021 Issue Date: 09 October 2021

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Yating WANG,Chaosheng PENG,Tao JIANG, et al. Research progress of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs for photocatalytic hydrogen production[J]. Front. Energy, 2021, 15(3): 656-666.

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Fig.1 Basic process of the photocatalytic reaction of MOFs materials.

Fig.2 Synthesis process of UiO-66(Zr/Ti)-NH₂ with bimetallic clusters and mixed ligands (adapted with permission from Ref. [20]).

Fig.3 Synthesis process, structure and photocatalytic performance of Pt/UiO-66-NH₂ and Pt@UiO-66-NH₂ (adapted with permission from Ref. [29]).

Fig.4 Synthesis process, structure and photocatalytic performance of UiO-66/g-C₃N₄ composite (adapted with permission from Ref. [32]).

Tab.1 Application of UiO-66 in the field of photocatalytic hydrogen production

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