The electrosynthesis of H
2O
2 as
an environmentally friendly green process has attracted great attention due to
the importance of H
2O
2 in industry and human lives. In
this work, a new strategy was proposed to improve the electrical conductivity
and H
2O
2 selectivity of transition metal oxides
catalysts. F-C (F doped carbon) was coupled with Ta
2O
5 by
calcining polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) as the carbon source using one step
method. The Ta
2O
5/F-C composite catalysts
show an excellent H
2O
2 selectivity of more than 80% as
well as high reactivity at 2.52 mA/cm
2, which is greatly enhanced
compared to the counterparts of F-C (selectivity of 59%) and Ta
2O
5-800
(current density of 0.85 mA/cm
2) in 0.1 M KOH solution. The onset
potential for H
2O
2 production on Ta
2O
5/F-C composites is 0.78 V in 0.1 M KOH, which indicates a negligible
overpotential. In addition, H
2O
2 selectivity of the
catalyst can be stabilized at more than 80% after 10 hours of electrolysis in
alkaline electrolyte. The high performance due to the introduction of F-C increases the conductivity of Ta
2O
5 and the
synergistic effect between F-C and Ta
2O
5. This work proposed
an efficient synergistic effect among F-doped C and Ta
2O
5 for H
2O
2 production.