以MOFs为代表的配位聚合物热解制备碳载非贵金属化合物电极材料是热点研究领域。目前，作为结晶态配位聚合物的MOFs的制备主要依赖于有限的几类人工合成、高纯度、成本较高的有机配体。本项目拟采用常见植物生物质提取液（其同一体系中含有多种配体类与非配体类有机分子）直接作为有机配体源，研究其与铁、钴、镍等过渡金属离子的配位、聚合反应过程。针对该复杂反应体系，研究其微观上金属离子与有机配体的配位反应机制，介观上分子聚合自组装过程，及所得配位聚合物宏观上的物化性质，探索该体系中配位聚合物组分、介观结构、宏观性质的调控方法；并研究所得配位聚合物热解过程，制备碳载非贵金属化合物，以析氧反应为模型，研究其电催化性能，探索配位聚合物结晶度等物化性质对其热解产物微纳结构及性能的影响。本项目将探索配位聚合物及其热解衍生物的绿色、经济新合成路线，为拓展配位聚合物热解制备高效、廉价电极材料提供新的思路和途径。

Pyrolysis of coordination polymers (typically metal-organic frameworks, MOFs) is considered as a shortcut to obtain carbon-supported non-noble metal compounds (e.g., metal oxides, metal phosphides, metal sulfides), and it is currently a hot research topic for the preparation of electrode materials for energy storage and conversion. However, as a typical category of highly crystallized coordination polymers, the synthesis of MOFs often relies on synthetic organic ligands with high purity and relatively high cost. In this proposal, the solvent extract of the plant biomass will be directly employed as free sources of organic ligands to interact with the non-noble metal ions such as Fe(III), Co(II) and Ni(II). The coordinating mechanism between the organic ligands and the metal cations, the polymerizing process at mesoscale and the macro properties of thus-obtained coordination polymers will be investigated in such a complicated system where multiple organic compounds (including both ligands and non-ligands) coexist, and the methods to control their morphologies, chemical compositions and physicochemical properties will be developed. Moreover, pyrolysis of thus-produced coordination polymers will be attempted to prepare carbon-supported non-noble metal nanocomposites with desirable electrocatalytic performance towards oxygen evolution reaction, and the influences of the crystallinity of the coordination polymers upon the the micro-nano structures and the properties of the resulting pyrolysis product will be evaluated. As such, a novel green and economic synthetic approach towards coordination polymers and their pyrolysis derivatives will be established, and it will also contribute to the development of highly efficient and cost-effective electrode materials.