Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Highly active and selective oxygen reduction to H2O2 on boron-doped carbon for high production rates

  • Yang Xia,
  • Xunhua Zhao,
  • Chuan Xia,
  • Zhen-Yu Wu,
  • Peng Zhu,
  • Jung Yoon (Timothy) Kim,
  • Xiaowan Bai,
  • Guanhui Gao,
  • Yongfeng Hu,
  • Jun Zhong,
  • Yuanyue Liu,
  • Haotian Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24329-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Oxygen reduction reaction provides an environmentally-benign route for hydrogen peroxide production but lacks efficient catalysts to achieve high selectivity and activity simultaneously. Here, the authors report a boron-doped carbon catalyst which shows great promise with outstanding performance.