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.
Authors
- Gaoyu Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0978-9533)
- Huajun Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4664-4042)
- Niuniu Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3909-330X)
- Xiangxing Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9135-9403)
- Dongdong Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9546-3029)
- Jiang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-6140)
- Shasha Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8724-4627)
- Ying Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1262-2590)
- Wenyu Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-2533)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nano Research
- Published
- 2025-05-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26599/nr.2025.94907634
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.07