Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Janus electrocatalytic flow-through membrane enables highly selective singlet oxygen production

  • Yumeng Zhao,
  • Meng Sun,
  • Xiaoxiong Wang,
  • Chi Wang,
  • Dongwei Lu,
  • Wen Ma,
  • Sebastian A. Kube,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Menachem Elimelech

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20071-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Electrocatalytic processes are promising for automated and scalable synthesis of singlet oxygen, but they are energy- and chemical-intensive. Here the authors present a Janus electrocatalytic membrane that selectively produces singlet oxygen with low energy consumption and free of chemical precursors.