Metal-Organic Frameworks as a Heterogeneous Platform for (Photo)-Electrocatalytic Solar Fuel Production
Idan Hod a, Raya Ifraemov a, Ran Shimoni a, Subhabrata Mukhopadhyay a
a Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University, Beer sheva, Israel
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#MEMP22. Multi-electron Molecular Photocatalysts
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizers: Nathan Neale and Natalia Shustova
Invited Speaker, Idan Hod, presentation 082
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.082
Publication date: 7th February 2022

In a world that is running out of natural resources, there is a growing need to design and develop sustainable and green energy resources. In that respect, photo-electrocatalytically driven reactions for the production of alternative fuels (such as water splitting or CO2 reduction) hold the potential to provide a route for future carbon neutral energy economy. Nevertheless, the slow kinetics of those catalytic reactions demands the development of efficient catalysts in order to drive it at lower overpotentials. Indeed, a variety of molecular catalysts based on metal complexes are capable of electrochemically reducing CO2 and/or protons. Yet, despite the significant progress in this field, practical realization of molecular catalysts will have to involve a simple and robust way to assemble high concentration of these catalysts in an ordered, reactant-accessible fashion onto a conductive electrode. 

Our group utilizes Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) based materials as a platform for heterogenizing molecular electrocatalysts. Their unique properties (porosity and flexible chemical functionality), enables us to use MOFs for integrating all the different functional elements needed for efficient catalysts: 1) immobilization of molecular catalysts, 2) electron transport elements, 3) mass transport channels, and 4) modulation of catalyst secondary environment. Thus, in essence, MOFs could possess all of the functional ingredients of a catalytic enzyme.  

In this talk, I will present our recent study on (photo)-electrocatalytically active MOFs incorporating molecular catalysts for solar fuel reactions.

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