Dr. Erum Pervaiz

Modern society is facing issues like increasing global population, depleting fossil fuel reserves, rising environmental pollution, and energy shortages. For a sustainable future, it is essential to explore green alternative energy resources. Hydrogen is a green, energy-rich fuel that offers carbon-free exhaust products. Among various technologies, electrochemical water-splitting is being regarded as a promising methodology for carbon-free hydrogen production. Development of a low-cost, highly active, and stable catalyst is the most challenging task for an efficient water splitting process. In this regard, hybrids composed of transition metals and MOFs offers modified stable structures along with improved electrocatalytic performance due to the synergistic effects. Transition metal carbides and sulphides are stable, abundant, and catalytically active. MOFs possess high porosity, a dynamic structure, design flexibility, and ultrahigh surface area. In our study, we developed hybrids in different combinations and observed improved catalytic activity as compared to the pure compounds.