Development of new metal–organic framework based materials for multifunctional electrocatalysis

In this PhD project new classes of electrocatalyst materials for their use in sustainable energy conversion and storage devices will be developed. Motivated by the urgent need for improved, earth-abundant-based alternative catalysts, an original set of metal-organic frameworks based electrocatalysts will be engineered and developed. This will be accomplished by tailoring of catalyst structures, involvement of different earth-abundant metals and establishing the knowledge-based design of the electrocatalytically active sites. Multifunctional ability to efficiently catalyze simultaneously different oxygen and hydrogen electrochemical reactions will be explored by using state-of-the-art electrochemical techniques incorporated with physical characterisation methods.