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Electrochemical modification of electrodes based on highly oriented carbon nanowalls

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The original and modified vertically oriented carbon nanowalls (CNWs) were applied onto conducting substrates by the plasma-chemical method. Their electrochemical behavior was studied by the methods of cyclic voltammetry and impedance measurements. The modified and original electrodes were characterized by using the methods of scanning and transmitting electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The nanowalls were modified with the functional groups (FG) via the electrolysis of aqueous solutions at the anodic potentials. Their adsorption properties were studied in the solutions of organic surfactants with the skeleton structure. It is shown that, in the first case, the number of oxygen-containing FG on the CNW surface significantly increases and, in both cases, the electrode capacitance considerably increases (by 30–50 and 3–5 times, respectively). A correlation between the rate constants k 0 of [Ru(NH3)6]2+/3+, [Fe(CN)6]4–/3–, and Fe2+/3+ redox reactions and a degree of nanowall surface functionalization is revealed. The values of k 0 were estimated in the automatic mode using a specially developed program by comparing the potential differences between the peaks of cyclic voltammograms ΔE, which were measured in a wide range of potential scan rate v, and the calculated ΔE (k 0, v) dependences, which were obtained by solving the corresponding diffusion equations. It is shown that the functionalization of CNWs leads to a substantial (by ~103 times) increase in k 0 for the Fe2+/3+ redox system and has almost no effect on the electron transfer in the [Fe(CN)6]3–/4– and [Ru(NH3)6]2+/3+ systems.

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  1. Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akad. Semenova 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast’, 132432, Russia

    A. G. Krivenko, N. S. Komarova, Yu. M. Shul’ga, R. A. Manzhos & S. V. Doronin

  2. Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    E. V. Stenina & L. N. Sviridova

  3. Skobel’tsin Institute of Nuclear Physic, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia

    K. V. Mironovich & V. A. Krivchenko

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Krivenko, N.S. Komarova, E.V. Stenina, L.N. Sviridova, K.V. Mironovich, Yu.M. Shul’ga, R.A. Manzhos, S.V. Doronin, V.A. Krivchenko, 2015, published in Elektrokhimiya, 2015, Vol. 51, No. 10, pp. 1090–1103.

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Krivenko, A.G., Komarova, N.S., Stenina, E.V. et al. Electrochemical modification of electrodes based on highly oriented carbon nanowalls. Russ J Electrochem 51, 963–975 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193515100079

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