Research progress of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Abstract

In recent years, defect-engineered Zr-based UiO-66 metal-organic frameworks (UiO-66(Zr) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)) have shown huge advantages in catalytic, functional materials, adsorption, and other fields due to their large surface areas, well-ordered porous structures, and flexible tailorability. It is extremely challenging to introduce defect sites in the synthesis of MOFs to regulate the physicochemical properties of materials such as (energy band structure, pore structure, etc.) to obtain an excellent performance. This paper reviews the recent research results of synthesis methods, characterization technologies, and application fields of defect-engineered UiO-66(Zr) MOFs materials in order to provide new insights to synthesize high-performance UiO-66(Zr) MOFs materials and promote the development of UiO-66(Zr) in various fields.

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Keywords

defect engineering / metal-organic frameworks / UiO-66 / photocatalysis

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Scientific Research Project of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission (Grant No. 2019KJ221) and the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Grant No. 1912011).

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