Enhancing Electrochemical Efficiency of Hydroxyl Radical Formation on Diamond Electrodes by Functionalization with Hydrophobic Monolayers

Electrochemical formation of high-energy species such as hydroxyl radicals in aqueous media is inefficient because oxidation of H2O to form O2 is a more thermodynamically favorable reaction. Boron-doped diamond (BDD) is widely used as an electrode material for generating •OH radicals because it has...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 35(2019), 6 vom: 12. Feb., Seite 2153-2163
1. Verfasser: Henke, Austin H (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Saunders, Timothy P, Pedersen, Joel A, Hamers, Robert J
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Electrochemical formation of high-energy species such as hydroxyl radicals in aqueous media is inefficient because oxidation of H2O to form O2 is a more thermodynamically favorable reaction. Boron-doped diamond (BDD) is widely used as an electrode material for generating •OH radicals because it has a very large kinetic overpotential for O2 production, thus increasing electrochemical efficiency for •OH production. Yet, the underlying mechanisms of O2 and •OH production at diamond electrodes are not well understood. We demonstrate that boron-doped diamond surfaces functionalized with hydrophobic, polyfluorinated molecular ligands (PF-BDD) have significantly higher electrochemical efficiency for •OH production compared with hydrogen-terminated (H-BDD), oxidized (O-BDD), or poly(ethylene ether)-functionalized (E-BDD) boron-doped diamond samples. Our measurements show that •OH production is nearly independent of surface functionalization and pH (pH = 7.4 vs 9.2), indicating that •OH is produced by oxidation of H2O in an outer-sphere electron-transfer process. In contrast, the total electrochemical current, which primarily produces O2, differs strongly between samples with different surface functionalizations, indicating an inner-sphere electron-transfer process. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements show that although both H-BDD and PF-BDD electrodes are oxidized over time, PF-BDD showed longer stability (≈24 h of use) than H-BDD. This work demonstrates that increasing surface hydrophobicity using perfluorinated ligands selectively inhibits inner-sphere oxidation to O2 and therefore provides a pathway to increased efficiency for formation of •OH via an outer-sphere process. The use of hydrophobic electrodes may be a general approach to increasing selectivity toward outer-sphere electron-transfer processes in aqueous media 
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