Electrocatalysts: Highly Efficient Non‐Precious Metal Electrocatalysts Prepared from One‐Pot Synthesized Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (Adv. Mater. 7/2014)

A method for the preparation of highly efficient, non-precious metal electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, through pyrolyzing one-pot synthesized zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) materials is reported by D.-J. Liu and co-workers on page 1093. Excellent current and power densities of the polymer electrolyte fuel cells are demonstrated using such catalysts as the cathode. This approach not only makes ZIF-based electrocatalysts easy to scale up, but also paves a new way for studying the influence of different N-containing ligands to the catalytic activity.