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On “resistance overpotential” caused by a potential drop along the ultrathin high aspect ratio gold nanowire electrodes in cyclic voltammetry

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High aspect ratio ultrathin (d < 10 nm) gold nanowires deposited on Si/SiO2 substrate are used as working electrodes for measuring cyclic voltammograms (CVs) in aqueous solutions of ferrocenemethanol and potassium hexacyanoferrate. The broadening of the peak separation as compared with that at a solid working electrode is explained as a result of the potential drop (“resistance overpotential”) along nanowires and nanowire network. The change in the CV shape over a sequence of scans is ascribed to a gradual breakup of individual nanowires and the respective transition of the linear diffusion to hemispherical diffusion regularities.

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Acknowledgments

Ms. Hannah Freyer is gratefully acknowledged for improving the English of the paper. Dr. G. Panaitov is gratefully acknowledged for the helpful discussions. Financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant 14-03-01079 for studies on the nanostructure synthesis and St. Petersburg State University grant 12.38.218.2015 for the electrochemical studies are gratefully acknowledged.

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    I. S. Muratova, A. Offenhäusser & Yu. Mourzina

  2. Chemistry Institute, St. Petersburg State University, 26 Universitetskij Pr., 198504, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. S. Muratova, K. N. Mikhelson & Yu. Ermolenko

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Muratova, I.S., Mikhelson, K.N., Ermolenko, Y. et al. On “resistance overpotential” caused by a potential drop along the ultrathin high aspect ratio gold nanowire electrodes in cyclic voltammetry. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 3359–3365 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3280-x

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