Development of a UiO-Type Thin Film Electrocatalysis Platform with Redox-Active Linkers.

ABSTRACT: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as electrocatalysis scaffolds are appealing due to the large concentration of catalytic units that can be assembled in three dimensions. To harness the full potential of these materials, charge transport to the redox catalysts within the MOF has to be ensured. Herein, we report the first electroactive MOF with the UiO/PIZOF topology (Zr(dcphOH-NDI)), i.e., one of the most widely used MOFs for catalyst incorporation, by using redox-active naphthalene diimide-based linkers (dcphOH-NDI). Hydroxyl groups were included on the dcphOH-NDI linker to facilitate proton transport through the material. Potentiometric titrations of Zr(dcphOH-NDI) show the proton-responsive behavior via the -OH groups on the linkers and the bridging Zr-μ₃-OH of the secondary bu

SUBMITTER: Johnson BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067658 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature