About this Research Topic
As a new practical technology for clean energy preparation and environmental remediation, photoelectrochemical reaction exhibits great applications in various fields including CO2 conversion, water splitting (HER, OER, and H2O2 production), inorganic ions elimination, and organic pollutants degradation. Among reported active materials, MOFs have attracted a lot of attention because of their ordered porosity, large specific surface area, tunable framework, and optical property. Through selecting or modulating metal ion/cluster or ligand, combining with metal, nonconductor or semiconductor to form heterojunctions or to be used as cocatalysts, MOFs can promote charge carrier separation and transfer to the catalytic active sites, improve the stability of the final functional materials, and provide more active catalytic sites, resulting in remarkable photoelectrochemical performance. Furthermore, MOFs can also be used as precursors or sacrificial templates to fabricate other kinds of porous MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical applications, such as metal oxides, metal sulfides, metal carbides, carbon materials, and their hybrid composites, etc. Therefore, MOFs and MOF-derived materials are very attractive and promising for photoelectrochemical reactions, and the corresponding explorations in this field are very instructive and hopeful.
The goal of this Research Topic is to explore and obtain MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical applications. This article collection aims to shed light on the most advanced achievements in the MOFs and MOF-derived materials, which should inspire and guide the future direction of this field.
The scope of the Research Topic includes all photoelectrochemical applications of MOFs and MOF-derived materials, such as water splitting, CO2 conversion, inorganic ions elimination, and organic pollutants degradation, etc. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• New design, synthesis, and photoelectrochemical performance of MOFs and MOF-derived materials.
• Novel photoelectrodes based on MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical applications.
• Mechanism study and deep understanding of the process of photoelectrochemistry.
• New characterization and evaluation methods of the materials with photoelectrochemical function.
• Investigation of side effects of MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical use.
The goal of this Research Topic is to explore and obtain MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical applications. This article collection aims to shed light on the most advanced achievements in the MOFs and MOF-derived materials, which should inspire and guide the future direction of this field.
The scope of the Research Topic includes all photoelectrochemical applications of MOFs and MOF-derived materials, such as water splitting, CO2 conversion, inorganic ions elimination, and organic pollutants degradation, etc. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• New design, synthesis, and photoelectrochemical performance of MOFs and MOF-derived materials.
• Novel photoelectrodes based on MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical applications.
• Mechanism study and deep understanding of the process of photoelectrochemistry.
• New characterization and evaluation methods of the materials with photoelectrochemical function.
• Investigation of side effects of MOFs and MOF-derived materials for photoelectrochemical use.
Keywords: MOF-derived materials, green energy production, environmental remiediation, metal organic frameworks, photoelectrochemistry
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