Controlled Synthesis of Spindle-shaped Fe-MOFs for Glucose Oxidation Reaction Electrocatalytic Activity
Electrocatalytic glucose oxidation(GOR),due to its relatively low thermodynamic potential and abundant glucose sources from biomass in nature,is a promising alternative to oxygen evolution reaction in electrocatalytic water splitting among various electrocat-alytic oxidation reactions.However,the development of highly active and low-cost GOR electrocatalysts remains a difficult problem.In this paper,MIL-88A(Fe),the Fe-MOFs electrocatalyst with high catalytic activity,low cost and special spindle-shaped structure,had been synthesized and applied to the electrocatalytic GOR reaction successfully.The prepared spindle-shaped Fe-MOFs were charac-terized by XRD,FESEM,TEM and FTIR.The experimental results showed that the prepared Fe-MOFs electrocatalyst needed the poten-tial of about 1.60 V to provide the current density of 100 mA·cm-2 for the OER in 1.0 mA·cm-2 KOH electrolyte solution.However,in the electrolyte solution containing 0.05 mol·L-1 glucose and 1.0 mol·L-1 KOH,experiments showed that the Fe-MOFs electrocatalyst re-quired only the potential of about 1.54 V to afford the current density of 100 mA·cm-2 for the GOR.It was found that the catalytic activ-ity of Fe-MOFs electrocatalyst in the KOH solution containing glucose was higher than that of in KOH solution.Simultaneously,the spin-dle-shaped Fe-MOFs electrocatalyst also displayed significant long-term stability.Obviously,the spindle-shaped Fe-MOFs catalyst provides a new catalyst choice for the practical application of electrocatalytic oxidation of glucose to produce gluconic acid.