Synthesis of Pt-doped CoFe layered double hydroxide derived from zeolitic imidazolate framework for efficient electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction

Abstract

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), a class of promising metal organic frameworks (MOFs) material, display high porosity and chemical/thermal stability. However, there are problems such as few active sites and restricted exposed active areas, which limit the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance of catalysts. Here, starting from zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), we have successfully synthesized Pt-doped CoFe layered double hydroxide (Pt/CoFe LDH) catalysts for efficient OER catalysis. The obtained Pt/CoFe LDH-4 catalysts provides large surface areas and abundant active sites, which further improves the OER performance. In detail, the Pt/CoFe LDH-4 exhibits a lower overpotential of 263 mV at a current density of 40 mA cm−2, in 1 M KOH solution, the stability of the catalyst exceeds 120 h at this current density, far superior to commercial catalyst RuO2. This study describes a new design idea for synthesis of LDH catalytic materials with low noble metal doping, which broadens the way to the synthesis of robust OER catalysts derived from ZIF-67.