Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 410
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Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen peroxide is a fabulous, green chemical oxidant, with a wide range of applications in industry, such as textile and paper manufacturing, and water treatment. It is also considered as a potential energy carrier, an alternative to hydrogen. The current industrial production is via a capital intensive anthraquinone process which is energy-demanding and produces crude hydrogen peroxide.
Electrochemical synthesis offers an attractive, cost-effective, alternative route for decentralized production of hydrogen peroxide and provides an easy way to access this valuable chemical in remote areas, where water pollution is a crisis, and water-related diseases threaten human life. The recent developments in this field have proven the feasibility of production of hydrogen peroxide via either the two-electron reduction of oxygen using a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell or the two-electron oxidation of water using an electrolyzer. Both of these are equally interesting and promising for onsite production of hydrogen peroxide in remote areas, and the success of these two processes strongly depends on catalyst development and system design.
The field is rapidly advancing into new areas of catalyst discovery and system design. With the advances in computational material discovery, new catalysts can be developed in a virtual environment using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Various experimental synthetic methods have made it possible to synthesize nanoparticles, thin films, carbon nanostrutures, etc., which are attractive as electrocatalysts for two-electron oxygen reduction and two-electron water oxidation reaction due to their chemical diversity.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome. Both experimental and computational research are welcome.
Dr. Samira Siahrostami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide
- two-electron oxygen reduction reaction
- two-electron water oxidation reaction
- catalyst development
- density functional theory (DFT) calculations
- transition metal oxides
- carbon-based materials
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