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FARADAY DISCUSSIONS
Volume 210, Issue -, Pages 173-188Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00041g
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0017603]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1763337]
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This paper is concerned with long-distance interactions between an unbiased metal nanoparticle (NP) and a nanoelectrode employed as a tip in the scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM). A NP immobilized on the inert substrate acts as a bipolar electrode, producing positive SECM feedback. The tip current magnitude depends strongly on the ratio of the particle and tip radii and the heterogeneous charge-transfer kinetics. The onset of electron tunneling was observed at very short separation distances (<2-3 nm) at which the NP behaves as a part of the tip electrode. The rate constant of the electron-transfer (ET) or electrocatalytic reaction at the NP can be extracted from either feedback or tunneling current. The tunneling mode of SECM can be used to investigate heterogeneous reactions occurring at a single NP without making an ohmic contact with it. This technique can also help elucidate nanoparticle/electrode interactions in various electrochemical systems ranging from NPs immobilized on the electrode surface to nanoimpact collision events.
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