Enabling electrochemical studies of chemically-modified carbon nanotubes in non-aqueous electrolytes using superparamagnetic nanoparticle-nanotube composites co-modified by diazirine molecular "tethers"

Wildgoose, Gregory G., Lawrence, Elliot J., Bear, Joseph C. and McNaughter, Paul D. (2011) Enabling electrochemical studies of chemically-modified carbon nanotubes in non-aqueous electrolytes using superparamagnetic nanoparticle-nanotube composites co-modified by diazirine molecular "tethers". Electrochemistry Communications, 13 (10). pp. 1139-1142.

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Abstract

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were covalently modified with polymer-coated superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles via amide bond formation to surface oxo-groups located predominantly at the ends of the nanotubes to form “magnetic MWCNTs”. The sidewalls of the magnetic MWCNTs were then selectively covalently modified with ferrocenyl groups via the photolysis of 3-[3-(trifluoromethyl) diazirin-3-yl] phenyl ferrocene monocarboxylate, which uses an aryldiazirine moiety as a molecular “tether”. We demonstrate that the assembly of the chemically-modified magnetic MWCNTs onto the surface of a magnetic carbon electrode enables one to obtain stable voltammetric signals of chemically-modified carbon nanotubes in non-aqueous electrolytes even under vigorous hydrodynamic conditions of stirring at 3000 rpm for up to twenty minutes. In contrast, non-magnetic chemically modified MWCNTs are removed from the electrode surface within the first two minutes of stirring.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Physical and Analytical Chemistry (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Synthetic Chemistry (former - to 2017)
Depositing User: Gregory Wildgoose
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2013 22:23
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2022 09:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/38045
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2011.07.015

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