Recent advances of nanacarbons-MOFs composite materials and their application in photocatalysis

This article reviews the recent advances in composite materials based on nanocarbons (graphene oxide (GO), reduced graphene oxide (RGO), carbon nanotubes (CNTs)) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their application in the photocatalytic degradation of organic-inorganic pollutants and hydrogen photocatalytic production. Nanocarbons such as GO and CNTs are materials that have excellent intrinsic properties such as high electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and thermal stability, as well as a high specific surface area. In general, the incorporation of nanocarbons in MOFs has allowed to significantly increase the photocatalytic activity of MOFs due to two factors: by increasing the specific surface area, and decreasing the recombination of the photogenerated charge carriers (electron / hole)