Zn/Co-MOFs DERIVED HIGH PERFORMANCE ELECTRODES FOR ELECTROCATALYSIS AND HYBRID SUPERCAPACITOR

Abstract

Extensive research conducted in recent years has shown that MOFs are exceptionally good precursors for a large variety of nanohybrids as the active materials applied in electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage. However, of the large pool of known MOFs, very few of them have been properly studied as precursors for free-standing nanoelectrodes of varying structures and morphologies, which has great potential for electrocatalysis and flexible energy storage devices. In this work, Zn/Co-MOFs derived self-supported metal-carbon, metal compound-carbon and mesoporous carbon hybrid nanoarrays were developed by tuning the various composition and processing conditions. and their electrochemical performance for water-splitting, flexible solid-state rechargeable Zn-air battery and flexible Zn ions hybrid supercapacitor were investigated.