Covalent organic framework-based materials for energy applications

The excessive depletion of fossil fuels and consequent energy crisis combined with environmental issues call for inexhaustible, clean and renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly energy technologies, such as solar energy and novel electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. D...

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Published inEnergy & environmental science Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 688 - 728
Main Authors Wang, De-Gao, Qiu, Tianjie, Guo, Wenhan, Liang, Zibin, Tabassum, Hassina, Xia, Dingguo, Zou, Ruqiang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 01.01.2021
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Chemical bonds
Clean energy
Covalence
Depletion
Design modifications
Electrochemistry
Electron transfer
Energy conversion
Energy research
Energy storage
Energy technology
Fossil fuels
Mass transfer
Metal ions
Photovoltaic cells
Porosity
Porous materials
Renewable energy sources
Solar energy
Sulfur
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Summary:The excessive depletion of fossil fuels and consequent energy crisis combined with environmental issues call for inexhaustible, clean and renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly energy technologies, such as solar energy and novel electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. Developing supporting platforms for energy conversion and storage ameliorating mass transfer and electron transfer has stepped into the center of the energy research arena. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are emerging crystalline porous materials linked via covalent bonding possessing flexible molecular design and synthetic strategies, high conjugated and modifiable structures, large surface area and porosity. Due to these merits, COFs have shown promising perspectives in energy applications including photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, metal-ion/sulfur batteries, etc. This critical review imparts a comprehensive summary of the fast-developing COF field in terms of molecular design and subsequent synthetic strategies to prepare COFs with highly conjugated and modifiable structures and their applications in energy conversion and storage. Furthermore, challenges and perspectives according to previous contributions are also discussed for developing more efficient energy conversion and storage COF materials. It is anticipated that this review could boost further research enthusiasm for COF-based materials in energy applications. The recent progress in the synthesis and energy applications of the covalent organic frameworks has been elaborated in this review article.
Bibliography:Tianjie Qiu is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Ruqiang Zou at the College of Engineering, Peking University. He received his BS degree from College of Chemistry, Nankai University. His research interests focus on the synthesis of metal-organic framework derived porous nanomaterials for energy conversion applications.
Ruqiang Zou is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the College of Engineering, Peking University, P. R. China. He received his PhD in Engineering in 2008 from Kobe University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He held the JSPS Younger Scientist during his doctoral course and was a Director's Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2008 to 2010. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Foundation of NSFC and Changjiang Scholar. His research interests focus on controllable preparation and application of hierarchically porous functional materials for energy and environmental applications. He has published more than 170 papers.
Hassina Tabassum is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Ruqiang Zou's group, Peking University. She received her PhD in Advanced Materials and Mechanics in 2017 from Peking University, China. She has won several awards including Peking University Academic and top ten best young researcher of Peking University.
Dingguo Xia obtained his master's in physical chemistry from the Harbin Institute of Technology and his PhD in metallurgical physical chemistry from Beijing Science and Technology. He worked as a professor in the College of Environmental and Energy Engineering at Beijing University of Technology from 1995 to 2010. He has worked at Peking University since May, 2010 and supervises researchers working on lithium-ion battery materials, low-temperature fuel-cell catalysis, and DFT investigation of energy materials.
De-Gao Wang received his BS (2014) and PhD degree (2019) in materials science and engineering from Central South University. He then joined the group of Prof. Ruqiang Zou at the College of Engineering, Peking University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019. His research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of porous functional materials for energy applications.
Wenhan Guo obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University in 2019. He is currently a member of Boya Postdoc Fellowship at the same department. His research focuses on the rational design and synthesis of porous nanomaterials and their applications in energy- and environment-related electrochemical processes, typically electrochemical nitrogen and carbon dioxide reduction.
Zibin Liang is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Professor Ruqiang Zou at the College of Engineering, Peking University. His research interest is the synthesis of functional nanomaterials based on metal-organic frameworks for energy storage and conversion applications.
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ISSN:1754-5692
1754-5706
DOI:10.1039/d0ee02309d