Tailoring the Spin State of CoFe PBA to Break the Activity‐Stability Trade‐off in H <sub>2</sub> O <sub>2</sub> Electrosynthesis
ABSTRACT Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) is an essential chemical whose conventional production is environmentally unsustainable, driving the pursuit of electrochemical synthesis via the two‑electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e – ORR). However, the intractable trade‐off between activity and stability hampers its industrialization, spin‐control engineering offers a compelling strategy that maintains structural integrity while enabling reversible electronic tunability. Herein, we demonstrate a CoFe Prussian blue analogue (CoFe PBA) catalyst with precisely regulated atomic coordination (Co─N─C─Fe) and spin states, enabling simultaneous high activity, selectivity, and stability in the 2e − ORR for H 2 O 2 production. This synergistic configuration pairs high‐spin Co sites, which facilitate strong O 2 adsorption, with low‐spin Fe sites that ensure structural robustness. The concerted effect of these sites effectively suppresses O─O bond cleavage, thereby guaranteeing high selectivity for H 2 O 2 generation. Consequently, CoFe PBA exhibits exceptional performance, achieving not only a high H 2 O 2 production rate of 6.74 mol g cat −1 h −1 with near‐100% initial selectivity but also outstanding operational stability, retaining 92.93% of its selectivity even after 3000 cycles in a concentrated alkaline electrolyte. Our work highlights spin‐state engineering as a viable strategy to overcome the longstanding activity, selectivity–stability trade‐off in electro‐synthesis H 2 O 2 .
Authors
- Pei Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2562-6478)
- Hongwei Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1514-3103)
- Qingchen Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-1093)
- Y Li
- Cejun Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6961-7196)
- Xiaojun Bao
- Jianmei Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-7154)
- Xuning Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7353-842X)
- Yi-Xiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5246-5497)
- Z K Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8114-0432)
Institutions
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- JEOL (China) (CN)
- Fuzhou University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Published
- 2026-06-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.76520
- Primary Topic
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00