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Highly dispersed Pt clusters encapsulated in MIL-125-NH2 via in situ auto-reduction method for photocatalytic H2 production under visible light

Xiubing Huang§(), Xiangjun Li§, Qingjie Luan§, Kaiyue Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Baozhen Li, Zuoshuai Xi, Wenjun Dong, Ge Wang()
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering Beijing Key Laboratory of Function Materials for Molecule & Structure Construction School of Materials Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 10083 China

§Xiubing Huang, Xiangjun Li, and Qingjie Luan contributed equally to this work

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Efficient hydrogen production via photocatalysis with high utilization efficiency of Pt cocatalyst is of great importance for sustainable development. In this work, we report an in situ auto-reduction strategy to encapsulate highly dispersed Pt clusters inside the cages of MIL-125-NH2. The amino groups in MIL-125-NH2 first react with formaldehyde to form reducing groups (i.e., –NH-CH2OH), which can in situ auto-reduce the confined Pt2+ ions to ultrasmall Pt clusters within the cavities. With optimized Pt content, photocatalytic H2 production over the obtained Pt(1.5)/MIL-125-NH-CH2OH catalyst with 1.43 wt.% Pt loading achieved as high as 4, 496.4 µmol·g−1·h−1 under visible light (λ > 420 nm) due to the facilitated transfer and separation of the photo-induced charger carriers arising from the synergetic effects between highly dispersed Pt clusters and MIL-125-NH-CH2OH framework. This in situ auto-reduction strategy may be extended to encapsulate various kinds of metal or alloy clusters/nanoparticles within amino-functioned metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with superior properties and excellent performance.

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Pt clustersMIL-125-NH2in situ auto-reduction methodphotocatalytic H2 productionvisible light

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 11,
November 2021
Pages 4250-4257
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3597-3
Cite this article:
Huang X, Li X, Luan Q, et al. Highly dispersed Pt clusters encapsulated in MIL-125-NH2 via in situ auto-reduction method for photocatalytic H2 production under visible light. Nano Research, 2021, 14(11): 4250-4257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3597-3
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