Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Phase-enabled metal-organic framework homojunction for highly selective CO2 photoreduction

  • Yannan Liu,
  • Chuanshuang Chen,
  • Jesus Valdez,
  • Debora Motta Meira,
  • Wanting He,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Catalin Harnagea,
  • Qiongqiong Lu,
  • Tugrul Guner,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Cheng-Hao Liu,
  • Qingzhe Zhang,
  • Shengyun Huang,
  • Aycan Yurtsever,
  • Mohamed Chaker,
  • Dongling Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21401-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Homojunctions are very promising in photocatalysis, but challenging to achieve. Herein, authors report a well-defined hierarchical metal–organic framework-based homojunction, formed via a one-pot synthesis route directed by hollow transition metal nanoparticles, as photocatalysts for CO2 reduction.