Correlated Electrochemical and Optical Detection Reveals the Chemical Reactivity of Individual Silver Nanoparticles

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• 作者：Vitor Brasiliense ; Anisha N. Patel ; Ariadna Martinez-Marrades ; Jian Shi ; Yong Chen ; Catherine Combellas ; Gilles Tessier ; Frédéric Kanoufi
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 16, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：10
• 页码：3478-3483
• 全文大小：344K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Electrochemical (EC) impacts of single nanoparticles (NPs) on an ultramicroelectrode are coupled with optics to identify chemical processes at the level of individual NPs. While the EC signals characterize the charge transfer process, the optical monitoring gives a complementary picture of the transport and chemical transformation of the NPs. This is illustrated in the case of electrodissolution of Ag NPs. In the simplest case, the optically monitored dissolution of individual NPs is synchronized with individual EC spikes. Optics then validates in situ the concept of EC nanoimpacts for sizing and counting of NPs. Chemical complexity is introduced by using a precipitating agent, SCN^–, which tunes the overall electrodissolution kinetics. Particularly, the charge transfer and dissolution steps occur sequentially as the synchronicity between the EC and optical signals is lost. This demonstrates the level of complexity that can be revealed from such electrochemistry/optics coupling.