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Reductive Electropolymerization of a Vinyl-containing Poly-pyridyl Complex on Glassy Carbon and Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide Electrodes
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Nanostructured modified electrodes: role of ions and solvent flux in redox active polyelectrolyte multilayer films
Mario Tagliazucchi1, Doris Grumelli, Ernesto J Calvo
1INQUIMAE, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Argentina.
Abstract:
Electrodes modified layer-by-layer by self-assembly of redox active polyelectrolytes comprised of osmium bipyridine-pyridine derivatized poly(allyl-amine) and poly(vinyl) sulfonate have been studied by EQCM, ellipsometry, cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in aqueous solutions of different anions and cations. Redox driven swelling by solvent exchange during oxidation, in excess to the hydration number, occurs by perturbation of the equilibrium between the osmotic and elastic forces as a result of the electrochemical injection of charge into the film. The exchanged mass and volume change during redox switching strongly depends on the nature of the anion under anion Donnan permselectivity conditions.
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