Congratulations to Jack’s H2O2 work published in Nature Communications!

We collaborate with Prof. Samira Siahrostami from University of Calgary and Prof. Jens Norskov from DTU. Congratulations to the co-first authors, Dr. Kun Jiang and Dr. Seoin Back.

Shifting electrochemical oxygen reduction towards 2e pathway to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), instead of the traditional 4e to water, becomes increasingly important as a green method for H2O2 generation. Here, through a flexible control of oxygen reduction pathways on different transition metal single atom coordination in carbon nanotube, we discovered Fe-C-O as an efficient H2O2 catalyst, with an unprecedented onset of 0.822 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode in 0.1 M KOH to deliver 0.1 mA cm−2 H2O2 current, and a high H2O2selectivity of above 95% in both alkaline and neutral pH. A wide range tuning of 2e/4e ORR pathways was achieved via different metal centers or neighboring metalloid coordination. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the Fe-C-O motifs, in a sharp contrast to the well-known Fe-C-N for 4e, are responsible for the H2O2 pathway. This iron single atom catalyst demonstrated an effective water disinfection as a representative application.

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