摘要: Great effort is made to maximize the surface area and expose active sites of a catalyst by distributing it over a suitable electronic conducting support. We present a design and eco-friendly construction of a two-dimensional Pt/SnO2/reduced-graphene-oxide (rGO) nanocomposite to study the strong metal-semiconductor-support interactions as candidate highly active and durable electrocatalyst. Distinctively, highly reactive SnOx nanoparticles (NPs) induced by laser ablation in liquids were used as a precursor to transform the graphene oxide (GO). Simultaneously, the initial amorphous-like SnOx further crystallized into SnO2 NPs, which were uniformly anchored onto rGO sheets. Afterward, the photo-excited electrons from semiconductor SnO2 were used as green reducing agents. Ultrafine Pt NPs with an average size of about 1–2 nm were in situ reduced and uniformly anchored on the surface of crystallized SnO2 NPs. Compared with the Pt/rGO catalysts without SnO2 modification, the prepared Pt/SnO2/rGO catalysts not only show larger electrochemical active surface area and higher catalytic activity toward methanol oxidation but also exhibit better tolerance toward CO and long-term cycle stability. The significantly enhanced electrochemical performance should be attributed to the uniformly dispersed Pt NPs with ultrafine size and the synergetic effect from the hybrid noble metal-semiconductor-carbon network components, which possess promising potential applications as electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation.