Green method could enable hospitals to produce hydrogen peroxide in house

A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego, Columbia University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Calgary, and the University of California, Irvine has developed a portable, more environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen peroxide. The method is based on a chemical reaction in which one molecule of oxygen combines with two electrons and two protons in an acidic electrolyte solution to produce hydrogen peroxide. The key to making this reaction happen is a special catalyst that the team developed that is made up of carbon nanotubes that have been partially oxidized.