Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 84 ›› Issue (5): 755-774.DOI: 10.6023/A26020053 Previous Articles     Next Articles

Review

基于含氮杂环配体的金属有机框架材料在电催化CO2还原中的应用与前景展望

张亚a,*(), 周功兵a, 孙为银b,*()   

  1. a 重庆师范大学化学与材料科学学院 绿色催化材料与技术重庆市重点实验室 重庆 401331
    b 南京大学化学学院 配位化学全国重点实验室 南京 210023
  • 投稿日期:2026-02-10 发布日期:2026-05-06
  • 通讯作者: 张亚, 孙为银
  • 作者简介:

    张亚, 重庆师范大学化学与材料科学学院讲师, 2024年于南京大学化学化工学院获博士学位, 主要从事金属有机框架及其复合材料、过渡金属纳米材料的可控合成及其在电催化小分子(CO2/H2O/N2)转化领域的应用.

    周功兵, 重庆师范大学化学与材料科学学院教授, 2009年于华南理工大学获学士学位(应用化学专业), 2014年于复旦大学获博士学位(物理化学专业). 目前研究方向为金属纳米催化剂的结构调控及其在生物质小分子催化转化、电催化水分解中的应用.

    孙为银, 南京大学化学学院教授, 1986年上海华东师范大学化学系本科毕业, 1990年和1993年在日本大阪大学分别获得硕士和理学博士学位. 近期的研究重点是利用金属有机框架及其衍生材料光/电催化CO2还原. 已发表超过400篇研究论文, 担任J. Coord. Chem. 编委, CrystEngComm顾问编委, 并自2014年起成为英国皇家化学学会会士(FRSC).

    ★ 框架材料化学专辑.

  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(22231006); 国家自然科学基金(21703024); 重庆市自然科学基金(CSTB2025NSCQ-GPX0259); 重庆市教委科技项目(KJZD-K202200514); 重庆师范大学基金(24XLB028)

Recent Advance and Perspective of Metal-Organic Frameworks Based on Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic Ligands for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Ya Zhanga,*(), Gongbing Zhoua, Wei-Yin Sunb,*()   

  1. a Chongqing Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis Materials and Technology, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
    b State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • Received:2026-02-10 Published:2026-05-06
  • Contact: Ya Zhang, Wei-Yin Sun
  • About author:

    ★ For the VSI “Chemistry of Framework Materials”.

  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(22231006); National Natural Science Foundation of China(21703024); Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China(CSTB2025NSCQ-GPX0259); Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission of China(KJZD-K202200514); Chongqing Normal University Foundation(24XLB028)

Achieving carbon neutrality through reducing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has emerged as an urgent global challenge in the fields of environmental science and sustainable development. Among the emerging mitigation strategies, electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (ECRR) stands out for its capacity to convert CO2 into high-valued chemicals or energy-dense fuels, providing a promising approach for reducing CO2 emissions and converting renewable electric energy into chemical energy. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a promising class of catalysts for ECRR, owing to their intrinsic structural advantages—including well-defined porosity and atomic-level structural tunability—which collectively enhance CO2 mass transport and adsorption, and enable systematic investigation of structure-activity relationship as well as reaction mechanism. In particular, MOFs constructed from nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ligands have garnered remarkable research interest, attributed to their superior features such as structural flexibility, abundant catalytic active sites and suitable stability. This review outlines the fundamental physicochemical properties and advanced characterization techniques for the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ligand-based MOFs. Then recent advances in the application of such MOFs to ECRR were summarized categorizing by the nitrogen-containing moieties, namely imidazolyl-, pyrazolyl-, triazolyl- and tetrazolyl-based ligands. Finally, this review analyzed the critical challenges impeding the practical application of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ligand-based MOFs in ECRR, including intrinsic electronic conductivity limitations, structural and electrochemical stability under prolonged operational conditions, integration of electrolyzer systems and mechanistic ambiguities arising from dynamic structural evolution during the ECRR. On this basis, prospects for future research directions are presented.

Key words: metal-organic frameworks, nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ligands, CO2 reduction reaction, electrocatalytic conversion