A collaboration of scientists from the National
Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National
Laboratory—Yale University, and Arizona State University has
designed and tested a new two-dimensional (2-D) catalyst that can
be used to improve water purification using hydrogen peroxide.
While water treatment with hydrogen peroxide is environmentally
friendly, the two-part chemical process that drives it is not very
efficient. So far, scientists have struggled to improve the
efficiency of the process through catalysis because each part of
the reaction needs its own catalyst—called a co-catalyst—and the
co-catalysts can’t be next to each other.
Scientists fit two co-catalysts on one nanosheet for better
water purification
