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The photoelectrochemical behavior of a polymer electrode based on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDT) is studied in acetonitrile solutions during the cathodic reduction of oxygen. The measurements are taken on PEDT films 490 nm thick deposited onto a platinum support in oxygen-saturated 0.1 M Bu4NBF4 solutions. The electrode was illuminated with a light of a wavelength 487 nm from a helium–cadmium laser in conditions of modulated illumination, and in doing so, the real and imaginary components of an alternating photocurrent were measured at different modulation frequencies. The peculiarity of the photoelectrochemical behavior of PEDT manifests itself in the emergence of an anodic photocurrent, which increases with a change in potential in the cathodic direction. At low modulation frequencies, the real and imaginary components are of the same sign, whereas at high modulation frequencies the components have opposite signs (photocurrent lags behind a change in the light intensity). The emergence of an anodic photocurrent is connected with the cathodic reduction of oxygen and the formation in a near-electrode layer of radical anion O– 2. Such a behavior of PEDT, which makes it different from other polymers of the thiophene series, is explained by different potentials of their anodic oxidation, to which a conductive state of the polymer is related.
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Rotenberg, Z.A., Alpatova, N.M., Ovsyannikova, E.V. et al. Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) in Acetonitrile Solutions during Cathodic Reduction of Oxygen. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 38, 1244–1249 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021114213197
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