Investigation of high catalytic activity catalyst for high hydrogen production rate: Co-Ru@MOF

• DOI: 10.1007/s41779-021-00643-9
• Publication Date: 2021-08-16T02:02:36Z
• Authors: Erhan Onat; Sabri Çevik; Ömer Şahin; Sabit Horoz; Mehmet Sait İzgi
• Keywords: 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology; 7. Clean energy

We report the synthesis of metal–organic framework supported-Co-Ru (Co-Ru@MOF) catalyst and its catalytic activity. The synthesized Co-Ru@MOF catalyst for the first time is used to obtain the maximum hydrogen production rate from hydrolysis of NaBH4. The synthesized Co-Ru@MOF catalyst indicates a compelling performance in the hydrogen production from the hydrolysis of NaBH4. It is found that Co-Ru@MOF with the loading of Co (80 wt%) and Ru (20 wt%) indicates a high hydrogen production rate of 15,144 mL/min.g and low activation energy of 41.41 kJ mol−1. The current study demonstrates that MOF is promising support for dispersing metal catalysts. Moreover, the synthesized Co-Ru@MOF catalyst is characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and energy dispersion spectroscopy (EDS) measurements.