Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lee JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6765303 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190826 39
We show H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is spontaneously produced from pure water by atomizing bulk water into microdroplets (1 μm to 20 µm in diameter). Production of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, as assayed by H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-sensitve fluorescence dye peroxyfluor-1, increased with decreasing microdroplet size. Cleavage of 4-carboxyphenylboronic acid and conversion of phenylboronic acid to phenols in microdroplets further confirmed the generation of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> The generated ...[more]