Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide splitting on metal-free powders assisted by phosphoric acid as a stabilizer

  • Yasuhiro Shiraishi,
  • Yuki Ueda,
  • Airu Soramoto,
  • Satoshi Hinokuma,
  • Takayuki Hirai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17216-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While H2 can serve as a renewable fuel, its large scale production, storage, and transport are challenging. Here, authors show H2O2 to serve as a potential energy carrier via the photocatalytic production of H2 from stabilized H2O2 solutions and metal-free catalysts.