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Amiri A, Ravi MJ, Huang SH, Janda DC, Amemiya S. Suppression of Resistive Coupling in Nanogap Electrochemical Cell: Resolution of Dual Pathways for Dopamine Oxidation. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. B, CHEMICAL 2024; 406:135440. [PMID: 38435378 PMCID: PMC10907013 DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2024.135440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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A nanogap cell involves two working electrodes separated by a nanometer-wide solution to enable unprecedented electrochemical measurements. The powerful nanogap measurements, however, can be seriously interfered with by resistive coupling between the two electrodes to yield erroneous current responses. Herein, we employ the nanogap cell based on double carbon-fiber microelectrodes to suppress resistive coupling for the assessment of intrinsic current responses. Specifically, we modify a commercial bipotentiostat to compensate the Ohmic potential drop shared by the two electrodes through the common current pathway with a fixed resistance in the solution. Resistive coupling through both non-Faradaic and Faradaic processes is suppressed to eliminate erroneous current responses. Our approach is applied to investigate the mechanism of dopamine oxidation at carbon-fiber microelectrodes as important electrochemical sensors for the crucial neurotransmitter. Resistive coupling is suppressed to manifest the intrinsic current responses based on the oxidation of both adsorbed and non-adsorbed forms of dopamine to the respective forms of dopamine-o-quinone. The simultaneous dual oxidation pathways are observed for the first time and can be mediated through either non-concerted or concerted mechanisms of adsorption-coupled electron transfer. The two mechanisms are not discriminated for the two-electron oxidation of dopamine because it can not be determined whether the intermediate, dopamine semi-quinone, is adsorbed on the electrode surface. Significantly, our approach will be useful to manifest intrinsic current responses without resistive coupling for nanogaps and microgaps, which are too narrow to eliminate the common solution resistance by optimizing the position of a reference electrode.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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Vieira MM, Lemineur JF, Médard J, Combellas C, Kanoufi F, Noël JM. Nanoimpact Electrochemistry to Quantify the Transformation and Electrocatalytic Activity of Ni(OH) 2 Nanoparticles: Toward the Size-Activity Relationship at High Throughput. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:5468-5473. [PMID: 35687372 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The fast establishment of structure-reactivity relationships is crucial to identifying the most appropriate nanoparticles (NPs) for a given application. This requires the development of methodologies allowing, simultaneously, the unraveling of the NPs geometry and the screening of their reactivity. Herein, nanoimpact electrochemistry (NIE) allows for quantifying the transformation and measuring the electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) of >100 Ni(OH)2 NPs of a wide range of size (NP radii from 25 to 100 nm). This is achieved by scanning electrochemical microscopy in a generation/collection-like mode, with one electrode being used to electrogenerate by local precipitation colloidal Ni(OH)2 NPs and the second one being used to collect them by NIE. It allows (i) quantifying the reductive and oxidative conversion of the Ni(OH)2 NPs and (ii) separating the electrochemical conversion and the OER electrocatalysis, leading to the evaluation of a structure-activity relationship.
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- Université Paris Cité, ITODYS, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, ITODYS, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France
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Operando analysis of the electrosynthesis of Ag2O nanocubes by scanning electrochemical microscopy. Electrochem commun 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2021.106950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Brunet Cabré M, Djekic D, Romano T, Hanna N, Anders J, McKelvey K. Microscale Electrochemical Cell on a Custom CMOS Transimpedance Amplifier for High Temporal Resolution Single Entity Electrochemistry**. ChemElectroChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202001083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Institute of Smart Sensors University of Stuttgart Keplerstraße 7 70174 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Smart Sensors University of Stuttgart Keplerstraße 7 70174 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Smart Sensors University of Stuttgart Keplerstraße 7 70174 Stuttgart Germany
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- School of Chemistry Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington Kelburn, Wellington 6012 New Zealand
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Chung HJ, Lee J, Hwang J, Seol KH, Kim KM, Song J, Chang J. Stochastic Particle Approach Electrochemistry (SPAE): Estimating Size, Drift Velocity, and Electric Force of Insulating Particles. Anal Chem 2020; 92:12226-12234. [PMID: 32786447 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Stochastic particle impact electrochemistry (SPIE) is considered one of the most important electro-analytical methods to understand the physicochemical properties of single entities. SPIE of individual insulating particles (IPs) has been particularly crucial for analyses of bioparticles. In this article, we introduce stochastic particle approach electrochemistry (SPAE) for electrochemical analyses of IPs, which is the advanced version of SPIE; SPAE is analogous to SPIE but focuses on deciphering a sudden current drop (SCD) by an IP-approach toward the edge of an ultramicroelectrode (UME). Polystyrene particles (PSPs) with and without different surface functionalities (-COOH and - NH3) as well as fixed human platelets (F-HPs) were used as model IPs. From theory based on finite element analysis, a sudden current drop (SCD) induced by an IP during electro-oxidation (or reduction) of a redox mediator on a UME can represent the rapid approach of an IP toward an edge of a UME, where a strong electric field is generated. It is also found that the amount of current drop, idrop, of an SCD depends strongly on both the size of an IP and the concentration of redox electrolyte. From simulations based on the SPAE model that fit the experimentally obtained SCDs of three types of PSPs or F-HP dispersed in solutions with two redox electrolytes, their size distribution histograms are estimated, from which their average radii determined by SPAE are compared to those from scanning electron microscopic images. In addition, the drift velocity and corresponding electric force of the PSPs and F-HPs during their approach toward an edge of a Pt UME are estimated, which cannot be addressed currently with SPIE. We further learned that the estimated drift velocity and the corresponding electric force could provide a relative order of the number of excess surface charges on the IPs.
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- Hee Jung Chung
- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute for Natural Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute for Natural Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute for Natural Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute for Natural Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sungshin W. University, 55 Dobong-ro, 76ga-gil, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul 01133, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei-ro 50-1, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute for Natural Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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Pandey P, Garcia J, Guo J, Wang X, Yang D, He J. Differentiation of metallic and dielectric nanoparticles in solution by single-nanoparticle collision events at the nanoelectrode. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:015503. [PMID: 31519013 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab4445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In this work, we demonstrate a highly effective method to generate and detect single-nanoparticle (NP) collision events on a nanoelectrode in aqueous solutions. The nanoelectrode of a nanopore-nanoelectrode nanopipette is first employed to accumulate NPs in solution by dielectrophoresis (DEP). Instead of using amperometric methods, the continuous individual NP collision events on the nanoelectrode are sensitively detected by monitoring the open-circuit potential changes of the nanoelectrode. Metallic gold NPs (GNPs) and insulating polystyrene (PS) NPs with various sizes are used as the model NPs. Due to the higher conductivity and polarizability of GNPs, the collision motion of a GNP is different from that of a PS NP. The difference is distinct in the shape of the transient potential change and its first time derivative detected by the nanoelectrode. Therefore, the collision events by metallic and insulating NPs on a nanoelectrode can be differentiated based on their polarizability. DEP induced NP separation and cluster formation can also be probed in detail in the concentrated mixture of PS NPs and GNPs.
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- Popular Pandey
- Physics Department, biomolecular Science Institute, Florida International University, Miami, 33199, United States of America
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Pathirathna P, Balla RJ, Amemiya S. Nanogap-Based Electrochemical Measurements at Double-Carbon-Fiber Ultramicroelectrodes. Anal Chem 2018; 90:11746-11750. [PMID: 30251536 PMCID: PMC6534271 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Electrochemical measurements with unprecedentedly high sensitivity, selectivity, and kinetic resolution have been enabled by a pair of electrodes separated by a nanometer-wide gap. The fabrication of nanogap electrodes, however, requires extensive nanolithography or nanoscale electrode positioning, thereby preventing the full exploration of this powerful method in electrode design and application. Herein, we report the simple fabrication of double-carbon-fiber ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) with nanometer-wide gaps not only to facilitate nanogap-based electrochemical measurements but also to gain high time resolution, signal-to-background ratio, and kinetic selectivity for dopamine against ascorbic acid. Specifically, ∼7 μm-diameter carbon fibers are inserted into a double-bore glass capillary, heat-pulled, and milled by focused ion-beam technology to yield ∼50 μm-long double-cylinder UMEs. The redox cycling of the Ru(NH3)63+/2+ couple across a nanogap between voltammetric generator and amperometric collector electrodes reaches quasi-steady states at fast scan rates of 100 V/s as demonstrated experimentally and even 1000 V/s as predicted theoretically. The transient background of the amperometric collector response is suppressed ∼100 times in comparison with that of the voltammetric generator response. Nanogap voltammograms based on the collector response against the cycled generator potential are quantitatively analyzed without background subtraction to reproducibly yield nanogap widths of ∼0.18 μm and a standard electron-transfer rate constant of 0.9 cm/s. Moreover, nanogap-mediated redox cycling can be initiated by dopamine oxidation at the generator electrode to largely improve the dopamine selectivity of the collector response against ascorbic acid, which is also oxidized at the generator electrode to immediately and irreversibly produce a redox-inactive species.
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- Pavithra Pathirathna
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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