Although porous materials based on coordination compounds, including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous coordination polymers (PCPs), have well-defined pore structures and promising properties, they can efficiently be prepared by conventional and facile methods. Among coordination compounds, Prussian blue (PB) and its analogues (PBA) show high physical/chemical properties and potential as a multifunctional platform for various applications such as information records, sensing, batteries, biomedicine, imaging, and water purification. This review introduces versatile paths for nano- and meso-structural controls and demonstrates strong relationship between nanoarchitectures and properties with regard to PB and PBAs. This review will provide some guidance for future derivations of nanoarchitectonics based on coordination compounds which are PB and PBA.

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets decorated with gold nanoparticles (Au NPs/rGO), palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs/rGO), and gold–palladium bimetallic nanoparticles (Au–Pd NPs)/rGO are synthesized by a simple solution chemistry approach using ascorbic acid as an eco-friendly reducing agent. These materials are characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), high-angle annular diffraction field-scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The as-prepared nanocomposites are tested as electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution in deaerated 0.5 M H₂SO₄ aqueous solution using polarization and impedance measurements. Experimental findings show that the tested catalysts exhibit fast hydrogen evolution kinetics with onset potentials as low as −17, −7.2, and −0.8 mV vs. RHE for Au NPs/rGO, Pd NPs/rGO, and Au–Pd NPs/rGO, respectively. In addition, Tafel slopes of 39.2, 33.7 and 29.0 mV dec⁻¹ and exchange current densities of 0.09, 0.11, and 0.47 mA cm⁻² are measured for Au NPs/rGO, Pd NPs/rGO, and Au–Pd NPs/rGO, respectively. The tested materials not only maintain their high performance after 5000 sweep cycles, but their activity is simultaneously enhanced after this aging process. These findings reveal that the tested catalysts, particularly Au–Pd NPs/rGO, are promising candidates among other noble metal catalysts for hydrogen evolution, approaching the commercial Pt/C catalyst (onset potential: 0.0 mV, Tafel slope: 31 mV dec⁻¹, and exchange current density: 0.78 mA cm⁻²). The high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity of such materials is likely due to the abundance of active catalytic sites, the increased electrochemically accessible surface area and significantly improved electrochemical conductivity.

This work reports the successful preparation of nanoporous iron oxide/carbon composites through the in-situ growth of Prussian blue (PB) nanoparticles on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets. The applied thermal treatment allows the conversion of PB nanoparticles into iron oxide (Fe₂O₃) nanoparticles. The resulting iron oxide/carbon composite exhibits higher specific capacitance at all scan rates than pure GO and Fe₂O₃ electrodes due to the synergistic contribution of electric double-layer capacitance from GO and pseudocapacitance from Fe₂O₃. Notably, even at a high current density of 20 A g⁻¹, the iron oxide/carbon composite still shows a high capacitance retention of 51%, indicating that the hybrid structure provides a highly accessible path for diffusion of electrolyte ions.

In this study we performed one-pot polycondensations of BFTB-4CHO with PyTA-4NH₂, BFTB-4NH₂, and BCTA-4NH₂ to prepare the bifluorenylidene-based covalent organic frameworks (COFs) BFTB–PyTA, BFTB–BFTB, and BFTB–BCTA, respectively. These three COFs possessed extremely high thermal stabilities, excellent crystallinities, and high specific surface areas. The BFTB–PyTA COF featured pores of a single size, whereas the BFTB–BFTB and BFTB–BCTA COFs had dual porosities. The COFs were exceptional adsorbers of the small dye molecule rhodamine B (RhB) in water; the maximum adsorption capacities reached as high as 2127 mg g⁻¹, outpacing those of all previously reported COFs, conjugated polymers, activated carbons, and other common nanoporous adsorbents. In addition, our COFs reached up to 99.2% of their maximum adsorption capabilities very rapidly (within 5 min). Furthermore, these COFs displayed good performance when used in electrodes for supercapacitors, with high stability after 2000 cycles. The superior adsorption efficiencies, ultrafast kinetics, and excellent reusability endow such COFs with tremendous potential for use as materials for removing RhB—and, presumably, other organic pollutants—from wastewater.