Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide synthesis is a green approach to produce this widely-used chemical and potential energy carrier, yet performance is often poor. A porphyrin-based photocatalyst is now shown to produce hydrogen peroxide by an unusual mechanism involving both photoexcited electrons and holes with promising efficiency.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Ketyl radical-mediated exfoliation and electron storage for solar hydrogen peroxide production
Nature Communications Open Access 12 December 2025
-
Interfacial rectification effect in CdS-based cascade dual heterojunction for enhancing cooperative coupling of hydrogen peroxide production and organic synthesis
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials Open Access 26 August 2025
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$32.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles
$119.00 per year
only $9.92 per issue
Rent or buy this article
Prices vary by article type
from$1.95
to$39.95
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Siahrostami, S. et al. Nat. Mater. 12, 1137–1143 (2013).
Ciriminna, R. et al. ChemSusChem 9, 3374–3381 (2016).
Kosydar, R. et al. Catal. Lett. 139, 105–113 (2010).
Moon, G.-H. et al. ACS Catal. 7, 2886–2895 (2017).
Chai, S. et al. Environ. Sci. Nano 9, 2464–2469 (2022).
Zhang, Y. et al. Nat. Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01218-7 (2023)..
John, S. et al. Phy. Rev. Lett. 57, 1777–1780 (1986).
Liu, M. et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61, e202113389 (2022).
Takata, T. et al. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Fang, Y., Wang, X. Peroxide production by porphyrins. Nat Energy 8, 325–326 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01230-x
Published:
Version of record:
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01230-x
This article is cited by
-
Engineering a covalent organic framework-based type-II heterojunction for enhanced photocatalytic H2O2 synthesis
Nature Synthesis (2025)
-
Ketyl radical-mediated exfoliation and electron storage for solar hydrogen peroxide production
Nature Communications (2025)
-
Interfacial rectification effect in CdS-based cascade dual heterojunction for enhancing cooperative coupling of hydrogen peroxide production and organic synthesis
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials (2025)
