TY - JOUR
T1 - Geometrical and chemical effects on the electrochemistry of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network electrodes
AU - Leppänen, Elli
AU - Gustafsson, Eero
AU - Wester, Niklas
AU - Varjos, Ilkka
AU - Sainio, Sami
AU - Laurila, Tomi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge Dr. Pether Engelhard for taking the TEM micrographs and building the 3D reconstruction of SWCNT networks. Mr. Jarkko Etula is acknowledged for taking the SEM images and conducting the Raman spectroscopy experiment.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/10/20
Y1 - 2023/10/20
N2 - Single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network is a promising electrode material for bio detection. Unfortunately, the associations between their physical as well as chemical properties and observed electrochemical performance are not known. This hinders any systematic optimization of the network properties towards specific analytes. Here we present a consistent physicochemical and electrochemical characterization of differently treated SWCNT networks. The results unambiguously show that (i) even if the electrochemical properties of different electrodes are practically identical when assessed by surface insensitive outer sphere redox (OSR) probes their behavior with inner sphere redox (ISR) probes can be drastically different. Further, (ii) the choice of the modification method (structural, chemical, electrochemical) heavily depends on nature of the target analyte, which are typically ISR probes. Although, (iii) chemical changes in the carbon phase appeared to be minor, effects of different treatments on oxidation states of Fe appeared to have a strong effect on the electrochemical performance of the networks in the case of ISR probes.
AB - Single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network is a promising electrode material for bio detection. Unfortunately, the associations between their physical as well as chemical properties and observed electrochemical performance are not known. This hinders any systematic optimization of the network properties towards specific analytes. Here we present a consistent physicochemical and electrochemical characterization of differently treated SWCNT networks. The results unambiguously show that (i) even if the electrochemical properties of different electrodes are practically identical when assessed by surface insensitive outer sphere redox (OSR) probes their behavior with inner sphere redox (ISR) probes can be drastically different. Further, (ii) the choice of the modification method (structural, chemical, electrochemical) heavily depends on nature of the target analyte, which are typically ISR probes. Although, (iii) chemical changes in the carbon phase appeared to be minor, effects of different treatments on oxidation states of Fe appeared to have a strong effect on the electrochemical performance of the networks in the case of ISR probes.
KW - Electrochemistry
KW - Single-walled carbon nanotubes
KW - Structure-property relationship
KW - X-ray absorption spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.electacta.2023.143059
DO - 10.1016/j.electacta.2023.143059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168745125
SN - 0013-4686
VL - 466
JO - Electrochimica Acta
JF - Electrochimica Acta
M1 - 143059
ER -