Synergetic Transformation of Solid Inorganic–Organic Hybrids into Advanced Nanomaterials for Catalytic Water Splitting

ConspectusThe rational synthesis of advanced nanomaterials with well-defined structures has been intensively studied due to the remarkable properties and intriguing applications of the formed materials. Recently, inorganic–organic hybrids have been widely adopted as precursors for chemical transformations toward the preparation of diverse nanomaterials. Specifically, inorganic and organic species with nano/molecule/atom-scale distribution serve as self-templates and sacrificial agents, respectively, endowing the products with controlled morphologies, band gaps, defects, and spatial architectures. However, previous works have focused mostly on the transformation of porous coordination polymers, such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), which would produce daughter nanomaterials with the inherited structure of their parental hybrids. Moreover, conventional transformation strategies often encounter difficulties in simultaneously manipulating multiple structural parameters of the target materials. Therefore, a...