Query: photocatalyst, MOF derived, CO2, review

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abstract: Abstract Amongst the major challenges of our century are climate change and energy shortage. These issues stem from anthropogenic activities and their greenhouse emissions such as CO2. Artificial photosynthesis and semiconductors, together with suitable optoelectronic and surface properties, are an interesting and cutting edge technology to tackle the aforementioned. Recently, MOF derived nanomaterials have developed as a new type of versatile porous semiconductor in the field of CO2 photoreduction. This work provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances of CO2 photoreduction by MOF derived carbon nanomaterials to solar fuels. Lastly, the outlook and possible enhancements for these photocatalysts are discussed.
author_names: Eder Moises Cedeno Morales

Boris I Kharisov

Miguel A Mendez-Rojas
title: CO2 photoreduction by MOF derived carbon nanomaterials: A review
year: 2021

abstract: Abstract The recycling of carbon dioxide via its electroreduction (CO2RR) is a key factor to stimulate the capture of this greenhouse gas, being a promising green strategy for achieving sustainable development. Nanostructured carbon materials play a protagonist role in the search of efficient and selective CO2RR electrocatalysts and, at the same time, pyrolysis is one of the most versatile tools to produce tailored nanocarbons. Nanocarbons involving a variety of dopants, metal single atom sites/nanoparticles and textural/structural arrangements can be obtained through rational precursor/s selection and control of the carbonization conditions. Thus, this review aims to highlight the advances in CO2RR electrocatalysis using nanocarbons derived from MOFs, biomass, polymers, and other precursors, assessing the aspects to improve as well. Bearing in mind that selectivity toward valuable products is the ever present obstacle, we summarize the nature and proportion of the produced compounds. With this, we provide a useful guide in which carbon synthetic conditions, structural features and electrocatalytic metrics are correlated to facilitate further progress in this boisterous field. After all, the main limitations detected in CO2RR research as well as potential approaches to address them are included.
author_names: Victor K Abdelkader-Fernandez

Diana M Fernandes

Cristina Freire
title: Carbon based electrocatalysts for CO2 electroreduction produced via MOF, biomass, and other precursors carbonization: A review
year: 2020

abstract: Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of crystalline porous materials constructed by periodic arranging of metal clusters and organic ligands. Their crystalline nature, structural diversity, and permanent porosity enable MOFs to be a highly versatile platform for various potential applications. This chapter will review recent achievements of MOF based materials in electrocatalysis toward the reactions of oxygen reduction, water splitting, and CO2 reduction. Typical MOF derived micro/nano structures and the specific active sites involved in determining catalytic activity are particularly emphasized. Finally, the major challenges and research opportunities, future trends, and prospects associated with MOF derived materials for electrocatalysis are discussed.
author_names: Zhongxin Song

Lei Zhang

Matthew Zheng

Xueliang Andy Sun
title: Chapter 1 MOF derived Materials for Extremely Efficient Electrocatalysis
year: 2019

abstract: Metal organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles, also called porous coordination polymers, are a major part of nanomaterials science, and their role in catalysis is becoming central. The extraordinary variability and richness of their structures afford engineering synergies between the metal nodes, functional linkers, encapsulated substrates, or nanoparticles for multiple and selective heterogeneous interactions and activations in these MOF based nanocatalysts. Pyrolysis of MOF nanoparticle composites forms highly porous N or P doped graphitized MOF derived nanomaterials that are increasingly used as efficient catalysts especially in electro and photocatalysis. This review first briefly summarizes this background of MOF nanoparticle catalysis and then comprehensively reviews the fast growing literature reported during the last years. The major parts are catalysis of organic and molecular reactions, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, and views of prospects. Major challenges of our society are addressed using these well defined heterogeneous catalysts in the fields of synthesis, energy, and environment. In spite of the many achievements, enormous progress is still necessary to improve our understanding of the processes involved beyond the proof of concept, particularly for selective methane oxidation, hydrogen production, water splitting, CO2 reduction to methanol, nitrogen fixation, and water depollution.
author_names: Qi Wang

Didier Astruc
title: State of the Art and Prospects in Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Based and MOF Derived Nanocatalysis.
venue: Chemical reviews
year: 2019

abstract: Heterogeneous catalysis, a process in which the reaction of gaseous or liquid chemical reagents is facilitated at the surface of a solid material, is responsible for the majority of industrial scale chemical and fuel production reactions. The energy required to drive these reactions has historically been derived from the combustion of non renewable fossil fuels and carries an unavoidably large carbon footprint. More recently, the development of environmentally responsible and sustainable chemical industries is increasingly motivated by greenhouse gas induced climate change, thus creating demand for eco friendly heterogeneous catalytic processes. This includes innovative approaches enabled by renewable forms of energy, such as the electrification of chemical and petrochemical processes, utilization of CO2 as a feedstock and the incorporation of light into catalytic reactions. Herein we review the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy using CO2, and describe how the photophysical and photochemical properties of nanostructured metal oxide photocatalysts have been engineered to efficiently incorporate light into heterogeneous gas solid CO2 hydrogenation reactions. Realizing high photonic and energy efficiencies in these systems has demanded innovation in not only photocatalyst engineering, but also photoreactor and process engineering. Rather than exclusively providing an in depth discussion of the chemistry and science within each individual study, this Tutorial Review highlights the multidisciplinary character of photocatalysis studies by covering the four essential components of a typical research work in this field (materials engineering, theoretical modelling, reactor engineering and process development) via case studies of the archetypal indium oxide catalyst materials. Through advances in these four components, progress has been made towards the ultimate goal of industrializing the production of CO2 derived chemicals and fuels.
author_names: Yuchan Dong

Paul N Duchesne

Abhinav Mohan

Kulbir Kaur Ghuman

Paul Kant

Lourdes Hurtado

Ulrich Ulmer

Joel Y Y Loh

Athanasios A Tountas

Li Wang

Abdinoor A Jelle

Meikun Xia

Roland Dittmeyer

Geoffrey A Ozin
title: Shining light on CO2: from materials discovery to photocatalyst, photoreactor and process engineering.
venue: Chemical Society reviews
year: 2020

abstract: Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of porous material which is formed by strong bonds between metal ions and organic linkers. By careful selection of constituents, MOFs can exhibit very high surface area, large pore volume, and excellent chemical stability. Research on synthesis, structures and properties of various MOFs has shown that they are promising materials for many applications, such as energy storage, gas storage, heterogeneous catalysis and sensing. Apart from direct use, MOFs have also been used as support substrates for nanomaterials or as sacrificial templates/precursors for preparation of various functional nanostructures. In this review, we aim to present the most recent development of MOFs as precursors for the preparation of various nanostructures and their potential applications in energy related devices and processes. Specifically, this present survey intends to push the boundaries and covers the literatures from the year 2013 to early 2017, on supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, electrocatalysts, photocatalyst, gas sensing, water treatment, solar cells, and carbon dioxide capture. Finally, an outlook in terms of future challenges and potential prospects towards industrial applications are also discussed.
author_names: Min Hui Yap

Kam Loon Fow

George Zheng Chen
title: Synthesis and applications of MOF derived porous nanostructures
year: 2017

abstract: Abstract Global warming and associated global climate change have led to serious efforts towards reducing CO2 emissions through the CO2 capture from the major emission sources. CO2 capture using the amine functionalized adsorbents is regard as a direct and effective way to reducing CO2 emissions due to their large CO2 adsorption amount, excellent CO2 adsorption selectivity and lower energy requirements for adsorbent regeneration. Moreover, large number of achievements on the amine functionalized solid adsorbent have been recorded for the enhanced CO2 capture in the past few years. In view of this, we review and analyze the recent advances in amine functionalized solid adsorbents prepared with different supporting materials including mesoporous silica, zeolite, porous carbon materials, metal organic frameworks(MOF) and other composite porous materials. In addition, amine functionalized solid adsorbents derived from waste resources are also reviewed because of the large number demand for cost effective carbon dioxide adsorbents and the processing needs of waste resources. Considering the importance of the stability of the adsorbent in practical applications, advanced research in the capture cycle stability has also been summarized and analyzed. Finally, we summarize the review and offer the recommendations for the development of amine based solid adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture.
author_names: Peiyu Zhao

Guojie Zhang

Huan Yan

Yuqiong Zhao
title: The latest development on amine functionalized solid adsorbents for post combustion CO2 capture: Analysis review
year: 2020

abstract: Excessive CO2 emission due to a large amount of fossil fuel utilization has become a widespread concern, which causes both environmental and energy problems. To solve these issues, electrocatalytic and photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to produce value added chemicals have gained immense attention. Recently, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and their derived materials with high specific surface areas, controllable pore structures, and tunable chemical properties exhibit promising performance among the reported catalytic materials for CO2 conversion. This review describes the recent advances on the rational design and synthesis of MOF based electrocatalysts and photocatalysts for CO2 reduction. The importance of the catalytic processes is highlighted, followed by systematic understanding of MOF based catalysts for CO2 reduction through electrochemical and photochemical approaches. Special emphasis of this review is to introduce basic catalyst design strategies and synthesis methods as well as their resulting electrocatalysts and photocatalysts. One of the major goals is to elucidate the structures and properties that link to their catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability towards to CO2 reduction. We also outline the challenges in this research area and propose the potential strategies for the rational design and synthesis of high performance catalysts.
author_names: Hanguang Zhang

Jiazhan Li

Qiang Tan

Leilei Lu

Zhenbo Wang

Gang Wu
title: Metal Organic Frameworks and Their Derived Materials as Electrocatalysts and Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives.
venue: Chemistry
year: 2018

abstract: Abstract Progress in the design, synthesis, and modification of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) has immensely helped expand their applications in a wide variety of research fields. Such developments offered great opportunities for upgrading their efficiencies in diverse photocatalytic applications (e.g. N2/CO2 reduction, H2 generation, organic synthesis, and environmental remediation) through enhanced conversion/storage of solar energy. The MOF based photocatalytic platforms are, nonetheless, subject to many practical problems (e.g. inapplicability for industrial upscaling and thermodynamic instability under environmental conditions) In this review, the effects of synthesis/modification strategies on MOF photocatalysis have been discussed with respect to the type of inorganic nodes, the modulation of organic ligands, and the pre /post synthesis modification in MOF networks (i.e. MOF based composite) Particular emphasis was placed on the technical advances achieved in the photoelectronic/catalytic performances of MOFs in multiple energy/environmental (redox) reactions based on both experimental and theoritical analyses. Further, the technical merits/disadvantages of MOF photocatalysts (in terms of structural defects, light absorption, active sites, and kinetic/thermodynamic stability) have been evaluated in relation to quantum efficiency and charge transfer mechanisms in various photo redox reactions. The pursuit of strategies for enhanced kinetic stability of MOFs have also been highlighted based on the nature/strength of coordination modes, the inertness of metal centers, and the functionality of ligand types. Lastly, the current limitations of MOF based photocatalysts are addressed with respect to their practical applications at industrial scales along with a discussion on their future use.
author_names: Sherif A Younis

Eilhann E Kwon

Muhammad Qasim

Ki-Hyun Kim

Taejin Kim

Deepak Kukkar

Xiaomin Dou

Imran Ali
title: Metal organic framework as a photocatalyst: Progress in modulation strategies and environmental/energy applications
year: 2020

abstract: Photocatalytic CO2 reduction is a revolutionary approach to solve imminent energy and environmental issues by replicating the ingenuity of nature. The past decade has witnessed an impetus in the rise of two dimensional (2D) structure materials as advanced nanomaterials to boost photocatalytic activities. In particular, the use of 2D carbon based materials is deemed as highly favorable, not only as a green material choice, but also due to their exceptional physicochemical and electrical properties. This review article presents a diverse range of alterations and compositions derived from 2D carbon based nanomaterials, mainly graphene and graphitic carbon nitride (g C3N4) which have remarkably ameliorated the photocatalytic CO2 performance. Herein, the rational design of the photocatalyst systems with consideration on the aspect of dimensionality and the resultant heterostructures at the interface are systematically analyzed to elucidate an insightful perspective on this pacey subject. Finally, a conclusion and outlook on the limitations and prospects of the cutting edge research field are highlighted.
author_names: Wee-Jun Ong

Lutfi Kurnianditia Putri

Abdul Rahman Mohamed
title: Rational Design of Carbon Based 2D Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: A Dimensionality Perspective.
venue: Chemistry
year: 2020