Journal
ACS SENSORS
Volume 1, Issue 7, Pages 949-957Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00314
Keywords
micromotor; impact electrochemistry; voltammetry; self-propulsion; detection; aqueous environment
Funding
- National Research Foundation Singapore under its National Research Foundation (NRF) Environmental and Water Technologies (EWT) PhD Scholarship Programme
- Ministry of Education, Singapore [01/99]
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Self-propelled micromotors, as the next frontier of smart miniaturized machines, are able to carry out a plethora of tasks and operations. To date, the evaluation of their capabilities and behavior has been carried out by optical microscopy coupled with computationally intensive imaging software. The use of particle-electrode impact voltammetry serves as an alternative means of quantifying and qualifying their locomotion. Perturbances of the diffusion layer at the electrode interface from the locomotion of the micromotor in solution resulted in spikes that were recorded by electrochemical signals. The number of micromotors and velocities of these self-propelled objects could be evaluated and examined in real-time in situ. This phenomenon was illustrated with Janus silver micromotors and tubular Cu/Pt micromotors. An on-site tracking of self-powered miniaturized entities propagating in solution serves as an alternative means for monitoring during their operations in environmental and biological applications.
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