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A contact-electro-catalysis process for producing reactive oxygen species by ball milling of triboelectric materials

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  • Ziming Wang

    (CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xuanli Dong

    (CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xiao-Fen Li

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Yawei Feng

    (CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    City University of Hong Kong)

  • Shunning Li

    (Peking University)

  • Wei Tang

    (CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Zhong Lin Wang

    (CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Ball milling is a representative mechanochemical strategy that uses the mechanical agitation-induced effects, defects, or extreme conditions to activate substrates. Here, we demonstrate that ball grinding could bring about contact-electro-catalysis (CEC) by using inert and conventional triboelectric materials. Exemplified by a liquid-assisted-grinding setup involving polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced, despite PTFE being generally considered as catalytically inert. The formation of ROS occurs with various polymers, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polypropylene (PP), and the amount of generated ROS aligns well with the polymers’ contact-electrification abilities. It is suggested that mechanical collision not only maximizes the overlap in electron wave functions across the interface, but also excites phonons that provide the energy for electron transition. We expect the utilization of triboelectric materials and their derived CEC could lead to a field of ball milling-assisted mechanochemistry using any universal triboelectric materials under mild conditions.

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  • Ziming Wang & Xuanli Dong & Xiao-Fen Li & Yawei Feng & Shunning Li & Wei Tang & Zhong Lin Wang, 2024. "A contact-electro-catalysis process for producing reactive oxygen species by ball milling of triboelectric materials," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-45041-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45041-4
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