Zirconium-Porphyrin-Based Metal-Organic Framework Hollow Nanotubes for Immobilization of Noble-Metal Single Atoms

Ting He; Shuangming Chen; Bing Ni; Yue Gong; Zhao Wu; Li Song; Lin Gu; Wenping Hu; Xun Wang

doi:10.1002/anie.201800817

Zirconium-Porphyrin-Based Metal-Organic Framework Hollow Nanotubes for Immobilization of Noble-Metal Single Atoms

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 Mar 19;57(13):3493-3498. doi: 10.1002/anie.201800817. Epub 2018 Feb 22.

Authors

Ting He^{1

2

3}, Shuangming Chen⁴, Bing Ni¹, Yue Gong⁵, Zhao Wu⁴, Li Song⁴, Lin Gu⁵, Wenping Hu², Xun Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
² Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Tianjin University & Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China.
³ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810000, China.
⁴ National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230029, China.
⁵ Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.

PMID: 29380509
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800817

Abstract

Single atoms immobilized on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with unique nanostructures have drawn tremendous attention in the application of catalysis but remain a great challenge. Various single noble-metal atoms have now been successfully anchored on the well-defined anchoring sites of the zirconium porphyrin MOF hollow nanotubes, which are probed by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy. Owing to the hollow structure and excellent photoelectrochemical performance, the HNTM-Ir/Pt exhibits outstanding catalytic activity in the visible-light photocatalytic H₂ evolution via water splitting. The single atom immobilized on MOFs with hollow structures are expected to pave the way to expand the potential applications of MOFs.

Keywords: hollow nanotubes; hydrogen evolution; metal-organic frameworks; photocatalysis; zirconium.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't