Issue 5, 2015

Bifunctional redox tagging of carbon nanoparticles

Abstract

Despite extensive work on the controlled surface modification of carbon with redox moieties, to date almost all available methodologies involve complex chemistry and are prone to the formation of polymerized multi-layer surface structures. Herein, the facile bifunctional redox tagging of carbon nanoparticles (diameter 27 nm) and its characterization is undertaken using the industrial dye Reactive Blue 2. The modification route is demonstrated to be via exceptionally strong physisorption. The modified carbon is found to exhibit both well-defined oxidative and reductive voltammetric redox features which are quantitatively interpreted. The method provides a generic approach to monolayer modifications of carbon and carbon nanoparticle surfaces.

Graphical abstract: Bifunctional redox tagging of carbon nanoparticles

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Oct 2014
Accepted
12 Dec 2014
First published
15 Dec 2014

Nanoscale, 2015,7, 2069-2075

Author version available

Bifunctional redox tagging of carbon nanoparticles

J. Poon, C. Batchelor-McAuley, K. Tschulik, R. G. Palgrave and R. G. Compton, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 2069 DOI: 10.1039/C4NR06058J

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements