Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction

Fan, Linkun; Yu, Qin; Chen, Jiazhen; Khan, Usman; Wang, Xusheng; Gao, Junkuo

doi:10.3390/catal12091005

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Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction

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Linkun Fan

¹,

Qin Yu

¹,

Jiazhen Chen

¹,

Usman Khan

^1,2

,

Xusheng Wang

^1,2,*

and

Junkuo Gao

^1,2,*

¹

Institute of Functional Porous Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China

²

Zhejiang Provincial Innovation Center of Advanced Textile Technology, Shaoxing 312000, China

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Catalysts 2022, 12(9), 1005; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12091005

Submission received: 5 August 2022 / Revised: 24 August 2022 / Accepted: 2 September 2022 / Published: 6 September 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current State-of-the-Art of Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications)

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Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are coordination polymers with high porosity that are constructed from molecular engineering. Constructing MOFs as photocatalysts for the reduction of nitrogen to ammonia is a newly emerging but fast-growing field, owing to MOFs’ large pore volumes, adjustable pore sizes, controllable structures, wide light harvesting ranges, and high densities of exposed catalytic sites. They are also growing in popularity because of the pristine MOFs that can easily be transformed into advanced composites and derivatives, with enhanced catalytic performance. In this review, we firstly summarized and compared the ammonia detection methods and the synthetic methods of MOF-based materials. Then we highlighted the recent achievements in state-of-the-art MOF-based materials for photocatalytic nitrogen fixation. Finally, the summary and perspectives of MOF-based materials for photocatalytic nitrogen fixation were presented. This review aims to provide up-to-date developments in MOF-based materials for nitrogen fixation that are beneficial to researchers who are interested or involved in this field.

Keywords: Haber–Bosch process; solar energy; photocatalytic nitrogen fixation; metal–organic frameworks

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Fan, L.; Yu, Q.; Chen, J.; Khan, U.; Wang, X.; Gao, J. Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction. Catalysts 2022, 12, 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12091005

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Fan L, Yu Q, Chen J, Khan U, Wang X, Gao J. Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction. Catalysts. 2022; 12(9):1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12091005

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Fan, Linkun, Qin Yu, Jiazhen Chen, Usman Khan, Xusheng Wang, and Junkuo Gao. 2022. "Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction" Catalysts 12, no. 9: 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12091005

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Fan, L., Yu, Q., Chen, J., Khan, U., Wang, X., & Gao, J. (2022). Achievements and Perspectives in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction. Catalysts, 12(9), 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12091005

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