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Low-temperature fuel cells have great application potential in electric vehicles and portable electronic devices, which need advanced electrocatalysts. Controlling the composition and morphology of electrocatalysts can effectively improve their catalytic performance. In this work, a Rh metallene (Rhlene)-supported Pt nanoparticle (Pt/Rhlene) electrocatalyst is successfully synthesized by a simple chemical reduction method, in which ultra-small Pt nanoparticles are uniformly attached to the Rhlene surface due to the high surface area of Rhlene. Pt/Rhlene reveals a 3.60-fold Pt-mass activity enhancement for the ethylene glycol oxidation reaction in alkaline solution compared with commercial Pt black, and maintains high stability and excellent poisoning-tolerance during electrocatalysis, owing to the specific physical/chemical properties of Rhlene. The superior electrocatalytic performance of Pt/Rhlene may open an avenue to synthesize other metallene-supported noble metal nanoparticle hybrids for various electrocatalytic applications.
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Electrostatically assembled ultrathin rhodium nanosheet-gold nanowire nanocomposites (Rh-Au CNSs) were used as an advanced electrocatalyst for the methanol oxidation reaction, which revealed a mass activity of 355 mA mgRh-1 at 0.607 V potential, much higher than single metal Rh nanosheets (273 mA mgRh-1) and commercial Rh nanoparticles (165 mA mgRh-1).
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Coordination polymers (CPs) have attracted increasing interest in recent years. In this work, two new CPs, namely poly[[aquabis(2,2'-bipyridine-κ2N,N'){µ3-5-[(4-carboxylatophenoxy)methyl]benzene-1,3-dicarboxylato-κ4O1,O1':O3:O5}(µ-formato-κ3O:O,O')dicadmium(II)] monohydrate], {[Cd2(C16H9O7)(HCO2)(C10H8N2)2(H2O)]·H2O}n (1), and poly[[(2,2'-bipyridine-κ2N,N'){µ3-5-[(4-carboxylphenoxy)methyl]benzene-1,3-dicarboxylato-κ4O1,O1':O3:O5}manganese(II)] sesquihydrate], {[Mn(C16H10O7)(C10H8N2)]·1.5H2O}n (2), have been prepared using the tricarboxylic acid 5-[(4-carboxyphenoxy)methyl]benzene-1,3-dicarboxylic acid and 2,2'-bipyridine under hydrothermal conditions. CP 1 displays a two-dimensional layer structure which is further extended into a three-dimensional (3D) supramolecular structure via intermolecular π-π interactions, while CP 2 shows a different 3D supramolecular structure extended from one-dimensional ladder chains by intermolecular π-π interactions. In addition, the solid-state luminescence spectra of 1 and 2 were studied at room temperature.