Citation: Shuaishuai Xu, Yang Gao, Tao Liang, Lipeng Zhang, Bin Wang. N, O-coupling towards the selectively electrochemical production of H₂O₂[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(12): 5152-5157. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.01.057 shu

N, O-coupling towards the selectively electrochemical production of H₂O₂

Shuaishuai Xu ^{a, b} ,
Yang Gao ^{b, *,} ,
Tao Liang ^b ,
Lipeng Zhang ^{c, *,} ,
Bin Wang ^{b, *,}

a.
State Key Laboratory of Organic−Inorganic Composites, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
b.
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
c.
State Key Laboratory of Organic−Inorganic Composites, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China

gaoyang@nanoctr.cn

zhanglp@buct.edu.cn

wangb@nanoctr.cn

Received Date: 25 October 2021
Revised Date: 13 January 2022
Accepted Date: 23 January 2022
Available Online: 31 January 2022

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Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) synthesis generally involves the energy-intensive anthraquinone process. Alternatively, electrochemical synthesis provides a green, economical, and environmentally friendly route to prepare H₂O₂ via the two-electron oxygen reduction reaction, but this process requires efficient catalysts with high activity and selectivity simultaneously. Here, we report an N, O co-doped carbon xerogel-based electrocatalyst (NO-CX) prepared by a simple and economical method. The NO-CX catalyst exhibits a high H₂O₂ selectivity over 90% in a potential range of 0.2–0.6 V and a high H₂O₂ production rate of 1410 mmol g_cat⁻¹ h⁻¹. The density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the coupling effect between N and O can effectively induce the redistribution of surface charge and the edge carbon atom adjacent to an ether group and a graphite nitrogen atom is the active site. This work provides a straightforward and low-cost process to produce highly selective H₂O₂ catalysts, which is in place for the expansion of electrocatalytic synthesis of useful chemicals.
- Carbon xerogel,
- N, O co-doping,
- Electrocatalyst,
- Oxygen reduction,
- Hydrogen peroxide
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