An efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst of phosphorous carbon co-doped MOFs

Abstract

It is eager to develop high-performance and cheap bifunctional electrochemical catalysts for both of the ORR or OER for the energy crisis and environmental problems. Herein, we report a series of ZIF-derived Co-P-C co-doped polyhedral materials with a well-defined morphology. The optimized catalyst Co/P/MOFs-CNTs-700 exhibited favorable electrochemical activities with the lowest over potential of 420 mV to achieve the current density of 10 mA cm -2 for OER and the half potential of 0.8 V for ORR in 0.1 M NaOH. The performance can be well improved by doping phosphorous resource which greatly changed its morphology. Meanwhile, the doped carbon resources also improve the conductivity, which makes it a promising bifunctional electrochemical catalyst and can be comparable with the commercial electrocatalysts.