Abstract
High-performance and cost effective electrocatalysts used for oxygen evolution reactions (OER) are indispensable in renewable-energy technologies. As an important 3D class of porous materials, Metal organic frameworks (MOF) with designable topological structures and compositions have been used as templates to obtain diverse functional materials. In this paper, ZnCo2O4@C-MWCNTs has been successfully synthesized by embedding dual-MOF into MWCNTs followed by calcinations under N2 and air atmosphere in turn. The ZnCo2O4@C-MWCNTs hybrid exhibits enhanced OER performance in terms of an onset potential (1.45V vs. RHE) and a low overpotential (327mV) at 10mAcm−2. It is noteworthy that the potentials of ZnCo2O4@C-MWCNTs remain almost constant for 25h in alkaline solution. Compared with many MOF derived matrix for OER applications, in-situ carbon formed during calcination process under N2 atmosphere can not only improve the material's conductivity, but also prevent the agglomeration of active nanoparticles. The design concept of dual-MOFs-doped MWCNTs can be significantly expanded to fabricate other novel and stable catalysts for a wide range of applications.
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