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PhD: Ting Zhang

Directors: Prof. Jordi Arbiol, Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group Leader at ICN2 and Prof. Joan Ramón Morante, Director of IREC, Head of Advanced Materials for Energy Area and Energy Storage, Harvesting and Catalysis Group Leader.

Short Abstract: The electrochemical conversion of CO2 powered by renewable energy to useful chemicals is considered as an elegant solution to decrease the excessive emission of carbon dioxide (CO2). However, due to the innerness of CO2 molecules and competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), enhancing the activity of the CO2 RR and improving the selectivity of products are still main challenge. Therefore, searching for a high-efficient and cost-friendly electrocatalyst is sensible and necessary for practical applications.

In the past decades, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) engrossed the enormous considerations in the field of electrocatalysis because of their chemical and physical advantages. Especially, MOFs-based materials are able to integrate the strengths of both MOFs and other functional materials and present impressive properties in the energy-related catalysis. Thus, the rational design of MOFs-based materials to realize a high-efficient CO2 RR is main target in our works.