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Probing Oxygen-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Electro-Conversion at Electrocatalysts Derived from Polyaniline

Yaovi Holade
Sarra Knani
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Marie-Agnès Lacour
Julien Cambedouzou
Sophie Tingry
Teko Napporn
David Cornu

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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a key chemical for many industrial applications, yet it is primarily produced by the energy-intensive anthraquinone process. As part of the Power-to-X scenario of electrosynthesis, the controlled oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) can enable the decentralized and renewable production of H2O2. We have previously demonstrated that self-supported electrocatalytic materials derived from polyaniline by chemical oxidative polymerization have shown promising activity for the reduction of H2O to H2 in alkaline media. Herein, we interrogate whether such materials could also catalyze the electro-conversion of O2-to-H2O2 in an alkaline medium by means of a selective two-electron pathway of ORR. To probe such a hypothesis, nine sets of polyaniline-based materials were synthesized by controlling the polymerization of aniline in the presence or not of nickel (+II) and cobalt (+II), which was followed by thermal treatment under air and inert gas. The selectivity and faradaic efficiency were evaluated by complementary electroanalytical methods of rotating ring-disk electrode (RRDE) and electrolysis combined with spectrophotometry. It was found that the presence of cobalt species inhibits the performance. The selectivity towards H2O2 was 65–80% for polyaniline and nickel-modified polyaniline. The production rate was 974 ± 83, 1057 ± 64 and 1042 ± 74 µmolH2O2 h−1 for calcined polyaniline, calcined nickel-modified polyaniline and Vulcan XC 72R (state-of-the-art electrocatalyst), respectively, which corresponds to 487 ± 42, 529 ± 32 and 521 ± 37 mol kg−1cat h−1 (122 ± 10, 132 ± 8 and 130 ± 9 mol kg−1cat cm−2) for faradaic efficiencies of 58–78%.
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hal-03709809 , version 1 (28-11-2022)

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Yaovi Holade, Sarra Knani, Marie-Agnès Lacour, Julien Cambedouzou, Sophie Tingry, et al.. Probing Oxygen-to-Hydrogen Peroxide Electro-Conversion at Electrocatalysts Derived from Polyaniline. Polymers, 2022, 14 (3), pp.607. ⟨10.3390/polym14030607⟩. ⟨hal-03709809⟩
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