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Thermodynamically controllable synthesis of ZIF-8 exposing different facets and their applications in single atom catalytic oxygen reduction reactions

Runze Ma1,§, Qiheng Li2,§, Jun Yan1 (), Yu Tao1, Shouyao Hu1, Donghao Liu1, Jiaxin Gong1, Yu Xiong1()
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Runze Ma and Qiheng Li contributed equally to this work.
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ZIF-8 with different faces is synthesized via a thermodynamically strategy, and single atom catalysts with different morphology maintain the unsaturated sites from ZIF-8 and thus show different catalytic properties.

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The development of thermodynamically controllable synthetic strategy to manipulate the morphology of ZIF-8 without capping agent is essential to help understanding their facet effect and the structure-activity relationship of single atom catalysts derived from ZIF-8. Here, we prepared ZIF-8 with different morphologies (cube, truncated rhombododecahedral and rhombododecahedral) and thus area ratio of exposed {100}, {110} facets by a thermodynamically controllable synthetic strategy. When the reaction proceeds under room temperature (30 °C), the assembling of ZIF-8 followed an area-reducing layered growth mode, while switched to an integral layered growth mode at lower temperature –40 °C. Moreover, this strategy also works to obtain ZIF-8 encapsulated with metal precursors (Fe(acac)3, Cu(acac)2 and Co(acac)2). Single Fe atom anchored on nitrogen doped carbon catalysts (SA-Fe/CN) derived from Fe-ZIF-8 retain their original morphologies and the unsaturated surface-active sites on {100} facet, which further displays different catalytic performance towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). This work not only reveals the different growth pattern of ZIF-8, but also points out a new direction for designing and synthesizing MOFs with different morphology rationally.

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ZIF-8facet effectsingle atom catalystoxygen reduction reaction

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 7,
July 2023
Pages 9618-9624
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5655-5
Cite this article:
Ma R, Li Q, Yan J, et al. Thermodynamically controllable synthesis of ZIF-8 exposing different facets and their applications in single atom catalytic oxygen reduction reactions. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 9618-9624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5655-5
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