Morphological chirality engineering in achiral CoNi-MOFs enables CISS-driven spin-selective oxygen evolution

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect holds transformative potential for spin-controlled electrocatalysis, yet its implementation in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) remains constrained by the reliance on chiral ligands or crystallographic asymmetry. Herein, we challenge this paradigm by demonstrating morphological chirality engineering in achiral CoNi-MOFs (<em>C</em>2/<em>m</em> symmetry) as a new route to CISS-enhanced oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Through amino acid-mediated growth control, these MOFs adopt left-/right-handed distorted morphologies despite their achiral space group and linkers, achieving 42% spin polarization and 30–50 mV lower OER overpotentials at 100 mA·cm<sup>-2</sup> compared to the achiral counterparts. This work establishes nanoscale morphological chirality control as a generalizable strategy to design spin-selective MOF electrocatalysts, potentially unlocking over 90% of the MOF family previously excluded from CISS applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Nano Research
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2025-05-29
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https://doi.org/10.26599/nr.2025.94907634
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Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
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Morphological chirality engineering in achiral CoNi-MOFs enables CISS-driven spin-selective oxygen evolution

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Morphological chirality engineering in achiral CoNi-MOFs enables CISS-driven spin-selective oxygen evolution

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Abstract

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect holds transformative potential for spin-controlled electrocatalysis, yet its implementation in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) remains constrained by the reliance on chiral ligands or crystallographic asymmetry. Herein, we challenge this paradigm by demonstrating morphological chirality engineering in achiral CoNi-MOFs (<em>C</em>2/<em>m</em> symmetry) as a new route to CISS-enhanced oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Through amino acid-mediated growth control, these MOFs adopt left-/right-handed distorted morphologies despite their achiral space group and linkers, achieving 42% spin polarization and 30–50 mV lower OER overpotentials at 100 mA·cm<sup>-2</sup> compared to the achiral counterparts. This work establishes nanoscale morphological chirality control as a generalizable strategy to design spin-selective MOF electrocatalysts, potentially unlocking over 90% of the MOF family previously excluded from CISS applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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