The Influence of Supporting Ions on the Electrochemical Detection of Individual Silver Nanoparticles: Understanding the Shape and Frequency of Current Transients in Nano-impacts.
Chemistry
; 23(19): 4638-4643, 2017 Apr 03.
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ABSTRACT
We report the influence of electrolyte composition and concentration on the stochastic amperometric detection of individual silver nanoparticles at microelectrode arrays and show that the sensor response at certain electrode potentials is dependent on both the conductivity of the electrolyte and the concentration of chloride ions. We further demonstrate that the chloride concentration in solution heavily influences the characteristic current spike shape of recorded nanoparticle impacts While typically too short to be resolved in the measured current, the spike widths are significantly broadened at low chloride concentrations below 10â
mm and range into the millisecond regime. The analysis of more than 25 000 spikes reveals that this effect can be explained by the diffusive mass transport of chloride ions to the nanoparticle, which limits the oxidation rate of individual silver nanoparticles to silver chloride at the chosen electrode potential.
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Diagnostic_studies
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En
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Chemistry
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QUIMICA
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article
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Alemanha