Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Contact-electro-catalysis for the degradation of organic pollutants using pristine dielectric powders

  • Ziming Wang,
  • Andy Berbille,
  • Yawei Feng,
  • Site Li,
  • Laipan Zhu,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Zhong Lin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27789-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Contact electro catalysis (CEC) was proposed as a novel catalytic principle that uses electron transfers during contact electrification to accelerate chemical reactions. Here the authors show even catalytically inert pristine polymers can catalyze the degradation of organic pollutant.