Non-Ideal Cyclic Voltammetry of Redox Monolayers on Silicon Electrodes : Peak Splitting is Caused by Heterogeneous Photocurrents and Not by Molecular Disorder

Over the last three decades, research on redox-active monolayers has consolidated their importance as advanced functional material. For widespread monolayer systems, such as alkanethiols on gold, non-ideal multiple peaks in cyclic voltammetry are generally taken as indication of heterogeneous interm...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 38(2022), 2 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 743-750
1. Verfasser: Zhang, Song (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lyu, Xin, Hurtado Torres, Carlos, Darwish, Nadim, Ciampi, Simone
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Over the last three decades, research on redox-active monolayers has consolidated their importance as advanced functional material. For widespread monolayer systems, such as alkanethiols on gold, non-ideal multiple peaks in cyclic voltammetry are generally taken as indication of heterogeneous intermolecular interactions─namely, disorder in the monolayer. Our findings show that, contrary to metals, peak multiplicity of silicon photoelectrodes is not diagnostic of heterogeneous intermolecular microenvironments but is more likely caused by photocurrent being heterogeneous across the monolayer. This work is an important step toward understanding the cause of electrochemical non-idealities in semiconductor electrodes so that these can be prevented and the redox behavior of molecular monolayers, as photocatalytic systems, can be optimized
Beschreibung:Date Revised 18.01.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02723