Electrochemistry of nanoparticles

SEF Kleijn, SCS Lai, MTM Koper… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoparticles (NPs) find widespread application as a result of their unique physical
and chemical properties. NPs have generated considerable interest in catalysis and …

Making contact: charge transfer during particle–electrode collisions

NV Rees, YG Zhou, RG Compton - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The study of impact processes between particles and electrode surfaces is less than 20
years old, and has recently received added impetus due to the current intense interest in the …

Charging and discharging at the nanoscale: Fermi level equilibration of metallic nanoparticles

MD Scanlon, P Peljo, MA Méndez, E Smirnov… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The redox properties of metallic nanoparticles are discussed, in particular the relationships
between excess charge, size and the Fermi level of the electrons. The redox potentials are …

Characterizing Emulsions by Observation of Single Droplet Collisions Attoliter Electrochemical Reactors

BK Kim, A Boika, J Kim, JE Dick… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report an electrochemical study of the collisions of single droplets in an emulsion by two
methods. In the first method, an electroactive redox species, for example, ferrocene, inside a …

Correlated electrochemical and optical tracking of discrete collision events

SE Fosdick, MJ Anderson, EG Nettleton… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Optical tracking of collisions between insulating microbeads and an ultramicroelectrode
surface are correlated to electrochemical measurements and 3D simulations. The …

Electrochemistry of a single attoliter emulsion droplet in collisions

BK Kim, J Kim, AJ Bard - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report here the electrochemistry of emulsion droplets by observing single emulsion
droplet collisions with selective electrochemical reduction on an ultramicroelectrode (UME) …

Gold nanoparticles show electroactivity: counting and sorting nanoparticles upon impact with electrodes

YG Zhou, NV Rees, J Pillay, R Tshikhudo… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in aqueous 0.10 M HCl are shown to be electroactive at
oxidising potentials greater than 1.0 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) by means of voltammetric monitoring of …

Electrochemical metal recycling: recovery of palladium from solution and in situ fabrication of palladium-carbon catalysts via impact electrochemistry

AV Oladeji, JM Courtney… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recycling of critical materials, regeneration of waste, and responsible catalyst manufacture
have been repeatedly documented as essential for a sustainable future with respect to the …

Redox electrochemistry of Mn (II) via carbon black nanoparticle impacts

ME Keal, JM Courtney, NV Rees - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The field of impact electrochemistry, namely, electrochemical processes occurring at
nanoparticles during collisions with a substrate electrode, has recently been applied to the …

Determining unknown concentrations of nanoparticles: the particle-impact electrochemistry of nickel and silver

EJE Stuart, YG Zhou, NV Rees, RG Compton - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The developing field of particle-impact electrochemistry is rapidly establishing itself as a
powerful tool for the interpretation of a wide range of phenomena associated with …