Hybrid material based on nanosheets can produce hydrogen peroxide

Hybrid Nanosheets Make Hydrogen Peroxide From Sunlight

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have built a hybrid material that uses sunlight, air, and water to produce hydrogen peroxide, one of the world’s most widely used disinfectants and industrial oxidants. The layered nanosheets are only about 200 nanometers thick, roughly 500 times thinner than a human hair, and they combine a synthetic semiconductor with a light-harvesting biological membrane to generate more than five times as much hydr…

Hybrid material based on nanosheets can produce hydrogen peroxide

Researchers in the United States have developed a new material to produce hydrogen peroxide more efficiently. Developed by a team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the material combines inorganic material with biological components to produce hydrogen peroxide. The team also revealed that hydrogen peroxide is commonly used for disinfecting, bleaching and whitening in a variety of settings from manufacturin…