ABSTRACT
Over the years the interest in developing an electrocatalyst that can be more efficient for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has increased and various electrocatalysts have been developed after enormous efforts. Recently, large attention has been engrossed by covalent organic frameworks (COFs) which belong to porous organic materials due to their extraordinary properties like high crystallinity, adjustable pore size, unique structure, and large surface area. These COFs have been used for designing electrocatalysts for OER. As COFs building blocks are organic molecules, they have low electrocatalytic activity and poor conductivity. Therefore, to overcome this metal nanoparticles are combined to form COFs-based nanomaterials for better electrocatalytic activity. These COFs based nanomaterials have shown their potential as electrocatalysts for OER. Thus, this chapter involves a discussion on the development of COFs-based nanomaterials as OER electrocatalysts.
