Single-Molecule Imaging of Iron-Phthalocyanine-Catalyzed Oxygen Reduction Reaction by in Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. 2016

Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.

We report herein an in situ electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (ECSTM) investigation of iron-phthalocyanine (FePc)-catalyzed oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). A highly ordered FePc adlayer is revealed on a Au(111) electrode. The center ions in the FePc adlayer show uniform high contrast in an oxygen-saturated electrolyte, which is attributed to the formation of an FePc-O2 complex. In situ STM results reveal the sharp contrast change upon shifting the electrode potential to trigger the ORR. Theoretical simulation has supplied further evidence for the contrast difference of the adsorbed FePc species.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
September 2020, Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English),
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
January 1989, Physical review letters,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
September 2008, Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
June 2006, Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
April 2005, The Journal of chemical physics,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
July 1989, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
January 2018, Nanoscale,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
August 1991, Physical review. B, Condensed matter,
Jing-Ying Gu, and Zhen-Feng Cai, and Dong Wang, and Li-Jun Wan
June 2007, The journal of physical chemistry. B,
Copied contents to your clipboard!