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Askarova G, Barman K, Mirkin MV. Quantitative Measurements of Electrocatalytic Reaction Rates with NanoSECM. Anal Chem 2024; 96:6089-6095. [PMID: 38574269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
Abstract
Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has been extensively used for mapping electrocatalytic surface reactivity; however, most of the studies were carried out using micrometer-sized tips, and no quantitative kinetic experiments on the nanoscale have yet been reported to date. As the diffusion-limited current density at a nanometer-sized electrode is very high, an inner-sphere electron-transfer process occurring at a nanotip typically produces a kinetic current at any attainable overpotential. Here, we develop a theory for substrate generation/tip collection (SG/TC) and feedback modes of SECM with a kinetic tip current and use it to evaluate the rates of hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions in a neutral aqueous solution from the current-distance curves. The possibility of using chemically modified nanotips for kinetic measurements is also demonstrated. The effect of the substrate size on the shape of the current-distance curves in SG/TC mode SECM experiments is discussed.
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- Gaukhar Askarova
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10031, United States
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Askarova G, Hesari M, Barman K, Mirkin MV. Visualizing Overall Water Splitting on Single Microcrystals of Phosphorus-Doped BiVO 4 by Photo-SECM. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:47168-47176. [PMID: 37754848 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c13099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Particulate bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has attracted considerable interest as a promising photo(electro)catalyst for visible-light-driven water oxidation; however, overall water splitting (OWS) has been difficult to attain because its conduction band is too positive for efficient hydrogen evolution. Using photoscanning electrochemical microscopy (photo-SECM) with a chemically modified nanotip, we visualized for the first time the OWS at a single truncated bipyramidal microcrystal of phosphorus-doped BiVO4. The tip simultaneously served as a light guide to illuminate the photocatalyst and an electrochemical nanoprobe to observe and quantitatively measure local oxygen and hydrogen fluxes. The obtained current patterns for both O2 and H2 agree well with the accumulation of photogenerated electrons and holes on {010} basal and {110} lateral facets, respectively. The developed experimental approach is an important step toward nanoelectrochemical mapping of the activity of photocatalyst particles at the subfacet level.
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- Gaukhar Askarova
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10031, United States
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Mishra A, Sarbapalli D, Rodríguez O, Rodríguez-López J. Electrochemical Imaging of Interfaces in Energy Storage via Scanning Probe Methods: Techniques, Applications, and Prospects. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2023; 16:93-115. [PMID: 37068746 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-091422-110703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Developing a deeper understanding of dynamic chemical, electronic, and morphological changes at interfaces is key to solving practical issues in electrochemical energy storage systems (EESSs). To unravel this complexity, an assortment of tools with distinct capabilities and spatiotemporal resolutions have been used to creatively visualize interfacial processes as they occur. This review highlights how electrochemical scanning probe techniques (ESPTs) such as electrochemical atomic force microscopy, scanning electrochemical microscopy, scanning ion conductance microscopy, and scanning electrochemical cell microscopy are uniquely positioned to address these challenges in EESSs. We describe the operating principles of ESPTs, focusing on the inspection of interfacial structure and chemical processes involved in Li-ion batteries and beyond. We discuss current examples, performance limitations, and complementary ESPTs. Finally, we discuss prospects for imaging improvements and deep learning for automation. We foresee that ESPTs will play an enabling role in advancing EESSs as we transition to renewable energies.
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- Abhiroop Mishra
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;
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Askarova G, Xiao C, Barman K, Wang X, Zhang L, Osterloh FE, Mirkin MV. Photo-scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Observation of Overall Water Splitting at a Single Aluminum-Doped Strontium Titanium Oxide Microcrystal. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:6526-6534. [PMID: 36892623 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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Particulate photocatalysts for the overall water splitting (OWS) reaction offer promise as devices for hydrogen fuel generation. Even though such photocatalysts have been studied for nearly 5 decades, much of the understanding of their function is derived from observations of catalyst ensembles and macroscopic photoelectrodes. This is because the sub-micrometer size of most OWS photocatalysts makes spatially resolved measurements of their local reactivity very difficult. Here, we employ photo-scanning electrochemical microscopy (photo-SECM) to quantitatively measure hydrogen and oxygen evolution at individual OWS photocatalyst particles for the first time. Micrometer-sized Al-doped SrTiO3/Rh2-yCryO3 photocatalyst particles were immobilized on a glass substrate and interrogated with a chemically modified SECM nanotip. The tip simultaneously served as a light guide to illuminate the photocatalyst and as an electrochemical nanoprobe to observe oxygen and hydrogen fluxes from the OWS. Local O2 and H2 fluxes obtained from chopped light experiments and photo-SECM approach curves using a COMSOL Multiphysics finite-element model confirmed stoichiometric H2/O2 evolution of 9.3/4.6 μmol cm-2 h-1 with no observable lag during chopped illumination cycles. Additionally, photoelectrochemical experiments on a single microcrystal attached to a nanoelectrode tip revealed a strong light intensity dependence of the OWS reaction. These results provide the first confirmation of OWS at single micrometer-sized photocatalyst particles. The developed experimental approach is an important step toward assessing the activity of photocatalyst particles at the nanometer scale.
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- Gaukhar Askarova
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College, Flushing, New York 11367, United States
- Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10031, United States
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Gao H, Xu J, Liu C, Wang F, Sun H, Wang Q, Zhou M. Precise Polishing and Electrochemical Applications of Quartz Nanopipette-Based Carbon Nanoelectrodes. Anal Chem 2022; 94:14092-14098. [PMID: 36191159 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Quartz nanopipette-based carbon nanoelectrodes (CNEs) have attracted extensive attention in nanoscale electrochemistry due to their simple and efficient fabrication, chemically inert materials, flexible size (down to a few nanometers), and ultrathin insulating encapsulation. However, these pristine CNEs usually have significantly irregular morphology on the surface, which greatly limits the applications where inlaid nanodisks are urgently needed. To address this critical issue, we have developed a new precise polishing strategy using paraffin coating protection (i.e., avoiding breakage of quartz materials) and real-time monitoring with a high impedance meter (i.e., indicating electrode exposure) to produce flat carbon nanodisk electrodes. The surface flatness of polished CNEs has been confirmed by a combination of scanning electron microscopy, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, and scanning electrochemical microscopy. As compared to the expensive focused ion beam processing, this strategy is competitive in terms of the low cost and availability of the equipment and enables the preparation of polished CNEs with sufficiently small size. The flattened CNEs have been exemplified for grafting molecular catalysts to achieve the durable catalysis of reactive molecules or for immobilizing single-particle electrocatalysts to measure the intrinsic activity under sufficient mass-transfer rates.
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- Han Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Innovation Academy for Green Manufacture, CAS, Beijing 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Zhou Y, Sun L, Watanabe S, Ando T. Recent Advances in the Glass Pipet: from Fundament to Applications. Anal Chem 2021; 94:324-335. [PMID: 34841859 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Yuanshu Zhou
- WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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- WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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- WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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- WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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Wu W, Jiang H, Qi Y, Fan W, Yan J, Liu Y, Huang W. Large‐Scale Synthesis of Functionalized Nanowires to Construct Nanoelectrodes for Intracellular Sensing. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202106251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Wen‐Tao Wu
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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Wu WT, Jiang H, Qi YT, Fan WT, Yan J, Liu YL, Huang WH. Large-Scale Synthesis of Functionalized Nanowires to Construct Nanoelectrodes for Intracellular Sensing. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:19337-19343. [PMID: 34121300 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202106251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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A strategy for one-pot and large-scale synthesis of functionalized core-shell nanowires (NWs) to high-efficiently construct single nanowire electrodes is proposed. Based on the polymerization reaction between 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) and noble metal cations, manifold noble metal nanoparticles-polyEDOT (PEDOT) nanocomposites can be uniformly modified on the surface of any nonconductive NWs. This provides a facile and versatile approach to produce massive number of core-shell NWs with excellent conductivity, adjustable size, and well-designed properties. Nanoelectrodes manufactured with such core-shell NWs exhibit excellent electrochemical performance and mechanical stability as well as favorable antifouling properties, which are demonstrated by in situ intracellular monitoring of biological molecules (nitric oxide) and unraveling its relevant unclear signaling pathway inside single living cells.
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- Wen-Tao Wu
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Si-Min Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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