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CHEMELECTROCHEM
Volume 5, Issue 20, Pages 2995-2999Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201800640
Keywords
single nanoparticle collision; multi-peak behavior; nanoparticles; surface plasmon resonance
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21522503, 21527807, 21605078]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20150013, BK20150570]
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Single nanoparticle collision (SNC) technology has attracted increasing attention to explore single nanoparticle electrochemistry. By improving the temporal resolution of electrochemical recording, several recent studies have uncovered the intermittent electron transfer processes during the SNC of single silver nanoparticles. The electrode current curve displayed multiple current peaks that were completely separated, instead of a single peak. In the present work, we employed surface plasmon resonance microscopy to monitor the collision and oxidation processes of single silver nanoparticles. Simultaneous optical and electrochemical recordings provided comprehensive capability to correlate the physical movement of nanoparticles (from optical signal) and the electron transfer activity (from electrochemical signal). While previous studies hypothesized the physical detachment of nanoparticles from the electrode due to electrostatic repulsion or Brownian motion, the optical imaging revealed that nanoparticles often remained in physical touch with the electrode even though no electron transfer was occurring. These results demonstrated that the electrical contact between nanoparticle and electrode, which could be rather stochastic due to thermal motion and micro-convection, played critical roles in regulating the multi-peak behavior of single silver nanoparticles.
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