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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
Multifunctional Boron-Doped Diamond Colloidal AFM Probes
Sven Daboss1, Peter Knittel2, Christoph E Nebel2
1Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, 89081, Germany.
Abstract:
Scanning probe microscopy techniques providing information on conductivity, chemical fluxes, and interfacial reactivity synchronized with topographical information have gained importance within the last decades. Herein, a novel colloidal atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe is presented using a spherical boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode attached and electrically connected to a modified silicon nitride cantilever. These conductive spherical BDD-AFM probes allow for electrochemical force spectroscopy. The physical robustness of these bifunctional probes, and the excellent electrochemical properties of BDD renders this concept a unique multifunctional tool for a wide variety of scanning probe studies including conductive AFM, hybrid atomic force-scanning electrochemical microscopy, and tip-integrated chem/bio sensing.
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