Published May 25, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Studies of electrochemical reduction of dioxygen with RRDE

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 (China)
  • 2. College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
  • 3. College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China) and State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 (China)

Description

The electrochemical behaviors of dioxygen (O2) were studied by using rotate ring-disk electrode (RRDE) and other electrochemical methods at bare glassy carbon electrode (GCE) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)-dihexadecyl hydrogen phosphate (DHP) film modified GCE. The results showed that the electrochemical reduction of dioxygen was considered to proceed by a two-step two-electron reduction pathway at both bare GCE and SWNTs-DHP film modified GCE in 0.1 mol/L air-saturated sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Maybe because each reaction rate for two cases was different the cyclic voltammograms measurements exhibited different behaviors. The detection of ring current confirmed the presence of middle product hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Furthermore, larger current and more positive reduction potential indicated that SWNTs showed a catalytic effect towards the electrochemical reduction of dioxygen

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.electacta.2005.11.042;
PII
S0013-4686(05)01377-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Electrochimica Acta
Journal Volume
51
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 4228-4235
ISSN
0013-4686
CODEN
ELCAAV

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