anode because of the sluggish reaction kinetics and high barrier for the formation of OO bond. [6,7] Noble metalbased catalysts such as IrO 2 and RuO 2 exhibit excellent OER activity, but their high cost and non-renewability limit the wide-spread applications. [8][9][10][11] Therefore, it is of great importance to develop costeffective and stable non-noble metalbased electrocatalysts. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with highly dispersed metal sites, intrinsic high porosity, and high internal surface area, have been considered as potential non-noble metal-based catalysts for OER. [19][20][21][22][23] Among the various MOFsbased OER catalysts, Co-based MOFs have received extensive attention due to the high activity and stability. [24,25] More importantly, the structural flexibility of most Co-based MOFs allows the design and fabrication of bimetallic MOFs with different second metal, leading to higher catalytic performance. [26][27][28][29][30][31][32] For example, Li et al. reported that the CoZn bimetallic MOFs could exhibit OER activity with the overpotential of 320 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 due to dimensionality and pore-geometry. [33] Furthermore, Bu et al. reported that the CoNi bimetallic 2D-MOFs exhibited excellent OER activity with the overpotential of 240 mV at 10 mA cm −2 , thanks to the CoNi coupling effect and the unsaturated active sites. [34] However, although plenty of efficient Co MOFs-based bimetallic OER catalysts have been developed, to the best of our knowledge, the effect of different second metal on the OER catalytic performance of Co-based MOFs has not been systematically investigated. What is worse, it is inappropriate to compare the results in reported works directly, because the reported Co-based MOFs may be different in coordination environment, dimension, and amount of second metal.Herein, we introduce different metal (M = Ni, Cu, Zn) into typical Co MOFs (i.e., ZIF-67) and further study their catalytic performance for OER in alkaline media to uncover the secondmetal effect for Co MOFs. These MOFs were grown on conductive carbon cloth (CC) immediately through a one-step roomtemperature strategy (marked as CoM MOFs/CC). [35] The order of OER activity, which is reflected by overpotential and Tafel slope, for these Co-based MOFs is found to be CoZn MOF/CC > CoNi MOF/CC > CoCu MOF/CC > Co MOF/CC. Furthermore, by
Co-based bimetallic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as a kind of promising electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, most of present works forCo-based bimetallic MOFs are still in try-and-wrong stage, while the OER performance trend and the underlying structure-function relationship remain unclear. To address this challenge, Cobased MOFs on carbon cloth (CC) (CoM MOFs/CC, M = Zn, Ni, and Cu) are prepared through a room-temperature method, and their structure and OER performance are compared systematically. Based on the results of overpotential and Tafel slope, the order of OER activity is ordered in the de...