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Metal organic frameworks as emerging photocatalysts

Metal organic frameworks as emerging photocatalysts
Metal organic frameworks as emerging photocatalysts
Increasing number of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently been recognised as a new generation of emerging porous photocatalysts in photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, since their intrinsic coordination structure between the metal cluster and organic ligands offers MOFs great flexibility to tune their semiconducting property for enhanced light harvesting. In order to improve their performance substantially and achieve widespread application of MOF photocatalysts, it is necessary to develop effective synthesis strategies and understand their semiconducting crystal structure, photocatalytic mechanism in depth. This chapter firstly provides a brief introduction of the MOF materials; this chapter addresses the crystallinity, porosity and electronic semiconducting structures that are essential in solar energy conversion. Established and innovative syntheses strategies of MOFs are then categorised and illustrated, followed by various characterisations techniques applied to investigate their structural and semiconducting properties (band structure and charge transfer), including X-ray Diffraction XRD, small angle X-ray Diffraction SAXRD, adsorption/desorption, UV-Vis, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), extended fine Auger structures (EXFAS), inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR)TEM and electrochemical measurements. The photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic application of MOFs are introduced addressing their unique photocatalytic mechanism. The perspectives of MOF photocatalysts are finally presented to encourage the future development. The content of this chapter suits the users including beginners, postgraduates and professionals.
metal organic framework, photocatalysis, light harvesting, photocatalysis, water splitting, photocatalytic CO2 reduction
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Alshammari, Ahmad
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Jiang, Zheng
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Cordova, Kyle E.
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Cao, Wenbin
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Jiang, Zheng
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Cordova, Kyle E.
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Cao, Wenbin

Alshammari, Ahmad, Jiang, Zheng and Cordova, Kyle E. (2016) Metal organic frameworks as emerging photocatalysts. In, Cao, Wenbin (ed.) Semiconductor Photocatalysis: Materials, Mechanisms and Applications. (Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials) Intech. (doi:10.5772/63489).

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Increasing number of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently been recognised as a new generation of emerging porous photocatalysts in photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, since their intrinsic coordination structure between the metal cluster and organic ligands offers MOFs great flexibility to tune their semiconducting property for enhanced light harvesting. In order to improve their performance substantially and achieve widespread application of MOF photocatalysts, it is necessary to develop effective synthesis strategies and understand their semiconducting crystal structure, photocatalytic mechanism in depth. This chapter firstly provides a brief introduction of the MOF materials; this chapter addresses the crystallinity, porosity and electronic semiconducting structures that are essential in solar energy conversion. Established and innovative syntheses strategies of MOFs are then categorised and illustrated, followed by various characterisations techniques applied to investigate their structural and semiconducting properties (band structure and charge transfer), including X-ray Diffraction XRD, small angle X-ray Diffraction SAXRD, adsorption/desorption, UV-Vis, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), extended fine Auger structures (EXFAS), inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR)TEM and electrochemical measurements. The photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic application of MOFs are introduced addressing their unique photocatalytic mechanism. The perspectives of MOF photocatalysts are finally presented to encourage the future development. The content of this chapter suits the users including beginners, postgraduates and professionals.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2016
Keywords: metal organic framework, photocatalysis, light harvesting, photocatalysis, water splitting, photocatalytic CO2 reduction

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Local EPrints ID: 414813
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414813
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ORCID for Zheng Jiang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7972-6175

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Date deposited: 11 Oct 2017 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:52

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Author: Ahmad Alshammari
Author: Zheng Jiang ORCID iD
Author: Kyle E. Cordova
Editor: Wenbin Cao

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