Scanning electrochemical microscopy of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes. 2010

Jiyeon Kim, and Hui Xiong, and Mario Hofmann, and Jing Kong, and Shigeru Amemiya

Here we report on the novel application of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to enable spatially resolved electrochemical characterization of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The feedback imaging mode of SECM was employed to detect a pristine SWNT (approximately 1.6 nm in diameter and approximately 2 mm in length) grown horizontally on a SiO(2) surface by chemical vapor deposition. The resulting image demonstrates that the individual nanotube under an unbiased condition is highly active for the redox reaction of ferrocenylmethyltrimethylammonium used as a mediator. Micrometer-scale resolution of the image is determined by the diameter of a disk-shaped SECM probe rather than by the nanotube diameter as assessed using 1.5 and 10 microm diameter probes. Interestingly, the long SWNT is readily detectable using the larger probe although the active SWNT covers only approximately 0.05% of the insulating surface just under the tip. This high sensitivity of the SECM feedback method is ascribed to efficient mass transport and facile electron transfer at the individual SWNT.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008853 Microscopy The use of instrumentation and techniques for visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe, or a topographical probe. Compound Microscopy,Hand-Held Microscopy,Light Microscopy,Optical Microscopy,Simple Microscopy,Hand Held Microscopy,Microscopy, Compound,Microscopy, Hand-Held,Microscopy, Light,Microscopy, Optical,Microscopy, Simple
D004563 Electrochemistry The study of chemical changes resulting from electrical action and electrical activity resulting from chemical changes. Electrochemistries
D000644 Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Derivatives of ammonium compounds, NH4+ Y-, in which all four of the hydrogens bonded to nitrogen have been replaced with hydrocarbyl groups. These are distinguished from IMINES which are RN Quaternary Ammonium Compound,Ammonium Compound, Quaternary,Ammonium Compounds, Quaternary,Compound, Quaternary Ammonium
D037742 Nanotubes, Carbon Nanometer-sized tubes composed mainly of CARBON. Such nanotubes are used as probes for high-resolution structural and chemical imaging of biomolecules with ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Buckytubes,Carbon Nanotubes,Nanoribbons,Buckytube,Carbon Nanotube,Nanoribbon,Nanotube, Carbon

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