Mimicking reductive dehalogenases for efficient electrocatalytic water dechlorination.

ABSTRACT: Electrochemical technology is a robust approach to removing toxic and persistent chlorinated organic pollutants from water; however, it remains a challenge to design electrocatalysts with high activity and selectivity as elaborately as natural reductive dehalogenases. Here we report the design of high-performance electrocatalysts toward water dechlorination by mimicking the binding pocket configuration and catalytic center of reductive dehalogenases. Specifically, our designed electrocatalyst is an assembled heterostructure by sandwiching a molecular catalyst into the interlayers of two-dimensional graphene oxide. The electrocatalyst exhibits excellent dechlorination performance, which enhances reduction of intermediate dichloroacetic acid by 7.8 folds against that without sandwich configu

SUBMITTER: Min Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447495 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature