In situ growth of MOFs on Ni(OH)2 for efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

Dongdong Wang; Wanbing Gong; Jifang Zhang; Guozhong Wang; Haimin Zhang; Huijun Zhao

doi:10.1039/d1cc04680b

In situ growth of MOFs on Ni(OH)₂ for efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Oct 28;57(86):11358-11361. doi: 10.1039/d1cc04680b.

Authors

Dongdong Wang¹, Wanbing Gong¹, Jifang Zhang¹, Guozhong Wang¹, Haimin Zhang¹, Huijun Zhao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, P. R. China. h.zhao@griffith.edu.au.
² Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia.

PMID: 34643624
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04680b

Abstract

A Ni-based MOF is in situ grown onto Ni(OH)₂ nanosheets to effectively suppress the oxygen evolution reaction for the efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid with 100% yield and faradaic efficiency at 1.4 V (vs. RHE).