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Wei Ma1, Hui Ma1, Zhe-Yao Yang1
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials & Department of Chemistry , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Potential-dependent current traces were first observed for the same sized nanoparticles (NPs) during the dynamic electro-oxidation process of single AgNPs. In this work, we demonstrated that the motion trajectories of NPs, coupled with electrochemical kinetics parameters, qualitatively predicted from the series of the experimentally observed current traces obtained single AgNPs collision behaviors. Based on the Poisson-Boltzmann equation for a general electrochemical reaction, a rate constant of Ag oxidation could be further estimated to be 1 × 10-6 mol·cm-2·s-1 for electron transfer between AgNPs and the Au electrode by comparing the experimental results. Our method provided a meaningful attempt to test electron transfer kinetics and motion behaviors of single NPs using the high-resolution electrochemical signal.
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