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Highly Conductive Cobalt Perthiolated Coronene Complex for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution
Author(s) -
Chen Zhijun,
Cui Yutao,
Ye Chunhui,
Liu Liyao,
Wu Xiaoyu,
Sun Yimeng,
Xu Wei,
Zhu Daoben
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202001792
Subject(s) - overpotential , tafel equation , cobalt , materials science , graphene , catalysis , redox , metal , chemical engineering , metal organic framework , conductivity , aqueous solution , hydrogen , electrochemistry , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , electrode , adsorption , engineering , metallurgy
Metal‐bis(dithiolene) is one of the most promising structures showing redox activity, excellent electron transport and magnetic properties as well as catalytic activities. Perthiolated coronene (PTC), an emerging highly symmetric ligand containing the smallest graphene nanoplate was employed to manufacture a hybrid material with fused metal‐bis(dithiolene) and graphene nanoplate, and it has been demonstrated as an efficient strategy for the construction of multifunctional materials recently. Herein, Co‐PTC, a 2D MOF containing Co‐bis(dithiolene) and coronene units is prepared via a homogeneous reaction for the first time as powder samples, which are bar‐shaped microparticles composed of nanosheets. A neutral formula of [Co 3 (C 24 S 12 )] n is verified for Co‐PTC. Co‐PTC plays an ultrahigh conductivity of approximately 45 S cm −1 at room temperature as compressed samples, which is among the highest value ever reported for the compressed powder samples of conducting MOFs. Moreover, Co‐PTC exhibits good electrocatalytic performance in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with a Tafel slope of 189 mV decade −1 and an operating overpotential of 227 mV at 10 mA cm −1 with pH=0, as well as a remarkable stability in the extremely acidic aqueous solutions, which is the best hydrogen evolution properties among metal–organic compounds.