Centre for Advanced Structural Materials, City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Greater Bay Joint Division, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Shenzhen518057, China
Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Greater Bay Joint Division, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Hong Kong 999077, China
Department of Material Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Center for the Microstructures of Quantum Materials, Nanjing University, Nanjing210093, China
CityU-Shenzhen Futian Research Institute, No. 3, Binglang Road, Fubao Street, Futian District, Shenzhen518045, China
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Single-crystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) twin-like nanobricks are fabricated via a selftemplated process, which mainly includes selective epitaxial growth of Fe-rich MOF layer and simultaneously dissolution of the pre-formed sandwich layers of Ni-rich MOFs. The relevant integrated electrode exhibits outstanding electrochemical performance for water oxidation. Interestingly, the NiFe-MOFs based pre-catalysts can be topochemically regulated into porous and low-crystalline NiFeOx structures during water oxidation.
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Fabrication of single-crystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) hollow nanostructures with two-dimensional (2D) morphologies is a challenging task. Herein, twin-like MOF nanobricks, a quasi-hollow 2D architecture, with multi-metal nodes and replaceable organic ligands, are uniformly and firmly grown on conductive Ni foam through a generic one-pot approach. The formation process of twin-like MOF nanobricks mainly includes selective epitaxial growth of Fe-rich MOF layer and simultaneously dissolution of the pre-formed Ni-rich metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), all of which can be ascribed to a special self-templated mechanism. The fantastic structural merits of twin-like MOF nanobrick arrays, featuring highly exposed active sites, remarkable electrical conductivity, and hierarchical porosities, enable this material for efficient electrocatalysis. Using bimetallic NiFe-MOFs grown on Ni foam as an example, the resultant twin-like nanobrick arrays can be directly utilized as three-dimensional (3D) integrated electrode for high-performance water oxidation in 1 M KOH with a low overpotential, fast reaction kinetics (28.5 mV·dec−1), and superb stability. Interestingly, the unstable NiFe-MOFs were served as an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) pre-catalyst and the single-crystalline NiFe-MOF precursor can be in-situ topochemically regulated into porous and low-crystalline NiFeOx nanosheets during the OER process. This work extends the hollowing strategy to fabricate hollow MOFs with 2D architectures and highlights their direct utilization for advanced electrocatalysis.
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