Abstract
Developing high-efficiency and cost-effective electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts would determine the future distributions of energy conversion technologies. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with unsaturated active metal sites, functionalized organic linkers, and large surface areas, are emerging heterogeneous electrocatalysts for the water oxidation process. Herein, we report an oxygen-evolving microporous (3,10)-connected Co6-based MOF (denoted as CTGU-14) for the electrocatalytic OER. Moreover, the integration of Co-MOF and SnO2, SnO2 (15%) & CTGU-14 composite attains remarkable electrochemical OER performance with a small Tafel slope of 68 mV·dec-1, a positive overpotential of 388 mV at 10 mA·cm-2, and overall durability in an alkali medium. The superior OER activities might be ascribed to more convenient electron transfer from the SnO2 additive to the electrode medium, effective surface area and unsaturated active cobalt centers, and more beneficial delivery for hydroxy radicals in the microporous Co-MOF skeleton in the process of the OER.
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