Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Understanding activity trends in electrochemical water oxidation to form hydrogen peroxide

  • Xinjian Shi,
  • Samira Siahrostami,
  • Guo-Ling Li,
  • Yirui Zhang,
  • Pongkarn Chakthranont,
  • Felix Studt,
  • Thomas F. Jaramillo,
  • Xiaolin Zheng,
  • Jens K. Nørskov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00585-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Producing hydrogen peroxide via electrochemical oxidation of water is an attractive route to this valuable product. Here the authors theoretically and experimentally investigate hydrogen peroxide production activity trends for a range of metal oxides and identify the optimal bias ranges for high Faraday efficiencies.