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Assessment of Boron Doped Diamond Electrode Quality and Application to In Situ Modification of Local pH by Water Electrolysis
Published on: January 6, 2016
Fractional surface termination of diamond by electrochemical oxidation
René Hoffmann1, Harald Obloh, Norio Tokuda
1Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), Tullastraße 72, Freiburg 79108, Germany. rene.hoffmann@iaf.fraunhofer.de
Abstract:
The crystalline form of sp(3)-hybridized carbon, diamond, offers various electrolyte-stable surface terminations. The H-termination-selective attachment of nitrophenyl diazonium, imaged by AFM, shows that electrochemical oxidation can control the fractional hydrogen/oxygen surface termination of diamond on the nanometer scale. This is of particular interest for all applications relying on interfacial electrochemistry, especially for biointerfaces.
