Scalable and Customizable Single‐Atom Coatings for pH‐Universal H <sub>2</sub> O <sub>2</sub> Electrosynthesis
Achieving scalable fabrication of robust and uniform single-atom catalyst-based gas-diffusion electrodes (SAC-GDEs) remains challenging. Here, a universal one-step soot-deposition route was developed to convert various metal-containing paraffins into conformal single-atom catalyst (SAC) coatings on diverse electrodes (1D fibers, 2D plates, and 3D foams). The process provides multiscale control, from precursor-defined molecular coordination to micropore wettability and macroscopic geometry, to collectively engineer hierarchical coating films that couple intensified mass transfer and high intrinsic catalytic activity for efficient H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> electrosynthesis. As a device-level demonstration, Pd-SAC-GDE delivers pH-universal H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> production under an industrial-level current (500 mA cm<sup>-2</sup>) for 100 h, achieving a record-high H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> yield of 16.9 mol g<sup>-1</sup> h<sup>-1</sup>. A tip-enhanced mechanism was proposed based on constant-potential calculations. The results reveal that the curvature-enhanced localized electric field promotes O<sub>2</sub> polarization and activation at the Pd-O<sub>3</sub> sites, thereby facilitating both <sup>*</sup>OOH generation and adsorption and ultimately leading to highly selective H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> production. This facile, broadly applicable fabrication strategy significantly advances the scalable manufacture of SAC-coated GDEs for environmental and sustainable catalysis.
Authors
- Linguo Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-6764)
- Minjia Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5742-5718)
- Zhongfang Chen
- Kunsheng Hu
- Yu Li
- Xiaoguang Duan
- Xi-Lin Wu
Institutions
- Zhejiang Normal University (CN)
- University of Puerto Rico System (PR)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-02-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202521237
- Primary Topic
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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