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Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Electrodes Containing One-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

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Photoelectrochemistry of electrodes containing single-walled carbon nanotubes is studied for the first time ever. Photoemission of electrons from such electrodes illuminated by UV light is discovered. It is established that the photocurrent amplitude as a function of the imposed potential obeys the 5/2 law and that the work function into solution for nanotubes and a mercury electrode coincide to within 0.08 eV. Similarity of electrochemical behavior of intermediates on the nanocarbon and mercury electrodes is shown with the reduction of radicals ėCH2Cl as an example.

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  1. Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskii pr. 16, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432, Russia

    V. A. Kurmaz, A. S. Kotkin, A. V. Krestinin & G. I. Zvereva

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Krivenko, A.G., Kurmaz, V.A., Kotkin, A.S. et al. Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Electrodes Containing One-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 39, 1078–1082 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026119303294

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