Abstract:
Recently, 2-D metal oxide frameworks (MOFs) have exhibited great potential for
energy storage devices including supercapacitors and batteries. This is due to their
superior and highly tunable porous, structural, and morphological features. Zeolite
imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are highly chemically, and thermally stable class of
MOFs which offer a wide variety of tunable porous structures and morphologies in
comparison to widely used nano porous carbon which requires inert gas environment
and high temperature treatment for large scale production and is therefore hazardous
and expensive. In this work, facile and one-step environmentally friendly synthetic
routes will be investigated and implemented for tuning of ZIF-67 derived porous
nanostructures as electrode materials for renewable energy storage applications. The
structural properties of the developed novel materials will be investigated using
RAMAN spectroscopy measurements and analysis. The porosity of the materials will
be estimated using Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analyzer. The
variation in morphology, pore size and structure will be studied by analyzing the shift
in Raman vibrational modes of the samples.
