CoMo-bimetallic N-doped porous carbon materials embedded with highly dispersed Pt nanoparticles as pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts.

The hydrogen evolution reaction is a key half reaction for water electrolysis and is of great significance. Pt-based nanomaterials are promising candidates for HER electrocatalysts. However, the high price of platinum and poor durability impede their practical applications. Herein, a new CoMo-bimetallic hybrid zeolite imidazolate framework is employed to load Pt nanoparticles in a highly dispersed manner as a precursor to synthesize an efficient pH-universal HER electrocatalyst (PtCoMo@NC), which displays overpotentials of 26, 51, and 66 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 in acidic, basic, and neutral media, respectively. The strong synergistic effect of highly dispersed multi-type catalytic species, including cobalt, molybdenum carbide, and platinum (4.7%) promotes the catalytic activity in the HER process. Meanwhile, the aggregation of Pt nanoparticles is greatly restrained by the carbon matrix so that a brilliant long-time durability of 12 hours and a negligible current decrease in the LSV curve after 10 000 CV cycles are achieved.

Excellent electromagnetic absorption properties of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-reduced graphene oxide-Co3O4 composites prepared by a hydrothermal method.

The ternary composites of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-reduced graphene oxide-Co3O4 (PEDOT-RGO-Co3O4) were synthesized and the electromagnetic absorption property of the composites was investigated. The structure of the composites was characterized with Fourier-transform infrared spectra, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscope. The electromagnetic parameters indicate the enhanced electromagnetic absorption property of the composites was attributed to the better impedance matching. On the basis of the above characterization, an electromagnetic complementary theory was proposed to explain the impedance matching. It can be found that the maximum reflection loss of PEDOT-RGO-Co3O4 can reach -51.1 dB at 10.7 GHz, and the bandwidth exceeding -10 dB is 3.1 GHz with absorber thickness of 2.0 mm. Therefore, the PEDOT-RGO-Co3O4 composites, with such excellent electromagnetic absorption properties and wide absorption bandwidth, can be used as a new kind of candidate for microwave absorbing materials.