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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 55, Issue 27, Pages 8116-8120Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2010.01.070
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Janus particles; Bipolar electrochemistry; Single point electrodeposition; Carbon tubes; Capillary electrophoresis
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Dissymmetric micro- and nanoobjects are of enormous interest in many areas ranging from molecular electronics to targeted drug delivery So far It has been quite difficult to synthesize dissymmetric objects at these scales and most approaches are based on using interfaces to break the symmetry Only a few bulk procedures are known so far to produce the so-called Janus-type objects We report here a simple approach for the bulk generation of dissymmetric micro- and nanoobjects especially carbon tubes (CTs) based on a known but so far underestimated electrochemical principle namely bipolar electrodeposition A suspension of CTs is introduced in a capillary containing an aqueous nickel salt solution and a high electric field is applied to orientate and polarize the individual tubes During their transport through the capillary under sufficient polarization each tube is the site of water oxidation at one end and of Ni2+ reduction at the other one The resulting nickel deposit at one end of the tube allows manipulation of the objects with the help of a magnetic field (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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