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Enhancing Hydrogen Peroxide Production through Modulating the Morphology of N-doped Mesoporous Carbon Electrocatalysts

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The ever-growing demand for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) makes large-scale production via environmentally-friendly strategies necessary. The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction stands out as an efficient and green approach for H2O2 production. Here, nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon materials (NMCM) with a hollow semispherical morphology are synthesized for H2O2 generation, which exhibit remarkable electrocatalytic stability, selectivity (94.5%), and onset potential (~ 0.6 V) toward the H2O2 formation in neutral environment. The distinct H2O2 production performance of NMCM can be attributed to synergistic effect of two factors, that is, the pyrrolic N to optimize the work function and the hollow semispherical morphology to facilitate mass transfer and expose abundant electrocatalytic active sites. This work offers a facile way to prepare metal-free electrocatalysts for realizing high-performance H2O2 production in neutral solutions.

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Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon materials with a hollow semispherical morphology and high pyrrolic N contents are synthesized for efficient H2O2 production.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFA0704502), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U22A20436), and the Special Program for Guiding Local Science and Technology Development by the Central Government (Grant No. 2022L3090).

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  2. College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, People’s Republic of China

    Lianggang Feng

  3. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, People’s Republic of China

    Zimin Yang, Lianggang Feng, Yongyu Pang & Guoliang Chai

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Yang, Z., Feng, L., Pang, Y. et al. Enhancing Hydrogen Peroxide Production through Modulating the Morphology of N-doped Mesoporous Carbon Electrocatalysts. Catal Lett (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-024-04658-2

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