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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 15, Issue 44, Pages 19487-19495Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp53684j
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Electrodeposition methods are used to generate a sparse array of platinum nanoparticles on a glassy carbon electrode. Specifically electrodeposition from a 1 mM solution of H2PtCl6 in 0.5 M H2SO4 leads to surface coverages of 0.46% to 1.96% and nanoparticles of size 29 nm to 136 nm in diameter, using deposition times of 30 and 15 seconds. The reduction of oxygen at an array of 29 nm nanoparticles with a surface coverage of 0.46% showed voltammetric signals with a scan rate dependence consistent with a two electron reduction of O2 to H2O2 with the rate proportional to k(0) exp (-alpha(E-E-f(o) )/RT) and formal potential (E(0)f) of similar to 0.058 V vs. SHE, a standard electrochemical rate constant (k0) of B10 cm s(-1) and a transfer coefficient (a) of 0.23. At higher Pt nanoparticle coverages, a scan rate dependence consistent with the partial further reduction of H2O2 to water becomes evident.
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