Ultrathin 2D nickel zeolitic imidazolate framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2

Jian-Xiang Wu; Wei-Wen Yuan; Ming Xu; Zhi-Yuan Gu

doi:10.1039/c9cc05487a

Ultrathin 2D nickel zeolitic imidazolate framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Sep 24;55(77):11634-11637. doi: 10.1039/c9cc05487a.

Authors

Jian-Xiang Wu¹, Wei-Wen Yuan¹, Ming Xu¹, Zhi-Yuan Gu¹

Affiliation

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China. guzhiyuan@njnu.edu.cn.

PMID: 31508621
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc05487a

Abstract

Ultrathin 2D nickel(II) (Ni2+) and imidazole (Im) based zeolitic imidazolate framework Ni(Im)2 nanosheets are reported as exceptional efficient electrocatalysts for the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction. Five nanometre thick nanosheets have a higher faradaic efficiency of 78.8% and a surface active site density of 1.68 × 10-7 mol cm-2, which is superior to those of thicker nanosheets and bulk Ni(Im)2.