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Iron Nanowire Fabrication by Nano-Porous Anodized Aluminum and its Characterization
Published on: October 6, 2019
Nanoporous platinum electrode grown on anodic aluminum oxide membrane: Fabrication, characterization,
Wenyan Tao1, Dawei Pan2, Zanhua Gong3
1Shenzhen Huachenyang Technology Company, Shenzhen, 510081, PR China; Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China.
Abstract:
A new type of nanoelectrode, nanoporous platinum (NPt) electrode was prepared on aluminum oxide membrane by thermal evaporation deposition. The morphology, conductivity and electrocatalytic activity of NPt electrode were characterized and compared with those of nanofilm-Pt electrode through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and cyclic voltammetry (CV) techniques, respectively. SEM images showed that "nanocavities" observed in NPt electrode were actually 2-dimensional enclosures by linked nanoparticles. It was different from the conventional arrays of "nanocavities" formed on homogeneous metal films. EIS data indicated that NPt electrode possesses higher conductivity. Compared with that on nanofilm-Pt electrode (14.05 Ω·cm2), the impedance spectrum on NPt electrode exhibits a semicircle portion with much smaller diameters (1.24 Ω·cm2 for NPt-100, 1.48 Ω·cm2 for NPt-200). Meanwhile, the response sensitivity of NPt electrode to O2 is 0.85 mA cm-2, which is larger than that of nanofilm-Pt electrode (0.54 mA cm-2). The largest catalytic current for nitric oxide (NO) was obtained in buffer with pH value of 9.4 while for Angeli's salt (AS) was obtained in buffer with pH value of 5.4. Additionally, electrocatalytic mechanisms of NPt electrode toward NO and AS were proposed, which indicating it depended on pH value of buffer solution.
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