Sustainable photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production over octonary high-entropy oxide

Hao Ling, Huacong Sun, Lisha Lu, Jingkun Zhang, Lei Liao, Jianlin Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Yingying Lan, Renjie Li, Wengang Lu, Lejuan Cai, Xuedong Bai, Wenlong Wang · 2024

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Sunlight plus water plus air can yield hydrogen peroxide, a green oxidant, if the catalyst is right. Hao Ling and twelve co-authors report in 2024 a high-entropy oxide, eight metals sharing one crystal, that does the job with no helper chemicals at all.

Titanium, vanadium, chromium, niobium, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum, and copper sit evenly in a single rutile phase, and the crystal is riddled with missing oxygen atoms. That complexity lets it drink in broad visible light and drive the reaction at a strong rate, with a quantum yield near thirty-nine percent at green wavelengths. Built into floating artificial leaves, the material kept producing peroxide on open water under natural sun. The authors offer it as a sustainable production route.

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CREATORHao Ling, Huacong Sun, Lisha Lu, Jingkun Zhang, Lei Liao, Jianlin Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Yingying Lan, Renjie Li, Wengang Lu, Lejuan Cai, Xuedong Bai, Wenlong Wang
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE85 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11532407

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