title: A Co₃O₄-embedded porous ZnO rhombic dodecahedron prepared using zeolitic imidazolate frameworks as precursors for CO₂ photoreduction.
abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are attracting considerable attention for their use as both the precursor and the template to prepare metal oxides or carbon-based materials. For the first time in this paper, the core-shell ZIF-8@ZIF-67 crystals are thermally converted into porous ZnO@Co3O4 composites by combining a seed-mediated growth process with a two-step calcination. The designed porous ZnO@Co3O4 composites exhibited the highest photocatalytic activity with an excellent stability for the reduction of CO2 among the commonly reported composite photocatalysts. Their superior photocatalytic performance is demonstrated to be resulting from the unique porous structure of ZnO@Co3O4 and the co-catalytic function of Co3O4 which can effectively suppress the photocorrosion of ZnO.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp and College of Materials Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Malgras
authors.affiliation: SM Business Unit, JEOL Ltd., 3-1-2 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan.
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asahina
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Guigao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Huabin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Xianguang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: College of Materials Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Berzelii Centre EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp and TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan. wangtao0729@nuaa.edu.cn Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp and TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, P.R. China and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jinhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye