Porous Boron-Doped Diamond/Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

H. Zanin; P. W. May; D. J. Fermin; D. Plana; S. M. C. Vieira; W. I. Milne; E. J. Corat

doi:10.1021/am4044344

Porous Boron-Doped Diamond/Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

H. Zanin^*, P. W. May, D. J. Fermin, D. Plana, S. M. C. Vieira, W. I. Milne, E. J. Corat

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Abstract

Nanostructuring boron-doped diamond (BDD) films increases their sensitivity and performance when used as electrodes in electrochemical environments. We have developed a method to produce such nanostructured, porous electrodes by depositing BDD thin film onto a densely packed "forest" of vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The CNTs had previously been exposed to a suspension of nanodiamond in methanol causing them to clump together into "teepee" or "honeycomb" structures. These nanostructured CNT/BDD composite electrodes have been extensively characterized by scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Not only do these electrodes possess the excellent, well-known characteristics associated with BDD (large potential window, chemical inertness, low background levels), but also they have electroactive areas and double-layer capacitance values similar to 450 times greater than those for the equivalent flat BDD electrodes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	990-995
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/am4044344
Publication status	Published - 22 Jan 2014

Keywords

diamond
carbon nanotubes
porous electrodes
electrochemistry
high capacitance
CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION
THIN-FILM ELECTRODES
MESOPOROUS CARBON
FIELD-EMISSION
PORE STRUCTURE
FABRICATION
SILICON
IMPEDANCE
DOPAMINE

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Preparation and electroanalytical applications of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes
May, P., Zanin, H., Corat, EJ., Silva, T. & Fatibello-Filho, O., 2016, Electrochemistry. London: Royal Society of Chemistry, Vol. 13. p. 50-96 47 p.
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Electrochemical Oxidation of Low Molecular Weight Alkanes to Liquid Fuels at Molecular Interfaces
Fermin, D. J.
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