Volume 4, Issue 8 1900547
Review

Recent Progress on Exploring Stable Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Solar Fuel Production

Xu-Sheng Wang

Xu-Sheng Wang

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632 P. R. China

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044 Japan

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Lan Li

Lan Li

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044 Japan

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002 P. R. China

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Dan Li

Corresponding Author

Dan Li

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632 P. R. China

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044 Japan

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Jinhua Ye

Corresponding Author

Jinhua Ye

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044 Japan

Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0814 Japan

TJU-NIMS International Collaboration Laboratory, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 P. R. China

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First published: 24 January 2020
Citations: 55

Abstract

Solar energy, a clean and sustainable energy source, can be harvested and converted to solar fuel to meet the ever-increasing energy demand. Integrating the photosensitizers and active catalytic sites into a single solid, metal–organic framework (MOF) with high void architectures and tunable chemical structures, is proposed as a promising platform for photocatalysis. However, compared with the traditional inorganic photocatalysts, the photocatalytic applications of MOFs are greatly hindered by its instability, especially the chemical instability. In this review, the background related to solar fuel production and MOFs are first discussed. Then, several strategies for designing stable MOFs are presented. Third, newly developed approaches for synthesizing highly efficient solar fuel production MOFs are summarized. Finally, the challenges and future perspectives using MOFs for solar fuel production are discussed. This review is expected to provide a deeper understanding of highly stable MOF design and new insights for the application of stable MOFs for solar fuel production.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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