TY - JOUR
T1 - Photochemically controlled electrochemical deposition and dissolution of Ag0 nanoclusters on Au electrode surfaces
AU - Riskin, Michael
AU - Katz, Eugenii
AU - Gutkin, Vitaly
AU - Willner, Itamar
PY - 2006/12/5
Y1 - 2006/12/5
N2 - A photoisomerizable thiolated nitrospiropyran SP, (1a), monolayer is assembled on a Au electrode by the primary deposition of thiolated nitromerocyanine isomer 1b as a monolayer on the electrode, followed by the irradiation of the surface with visible light, λ > 475 nm. The surface coverage of nitrospiropyran units (1a) on the electrode is 2 × 10 -10 mole cm-2. Irradiation of the electrode with UV light, 320 nm < λ < 360 nm, results in the nitromerocyanine, MR, monolayer on the electrode that binds Ag+ ions to the phenolate units. The Ag+ ions associated with the MR monolayer undergo cyclic reduction to surface-confined Ag0 nanoclusters, and reoxidation and dissolution of the Ag0 nanoclusters to Ag+ ions associated with the monolayer are demonstrated. The electron-transfer rate constants for the reduction of Ag+ to Ag0 and for the dissolution of Ag0 were determined by chronoamperometry and correspond to k etred = 12.7 s-1 and ket DX = 10.5 s-1, respectively. The nanoclustering rate was characterized by surface plasmon resonance measurements, and it proceeds on a time scale of 10 min. The size of the Ag0 nanoclusters is in the range of 2 to 20 nm. The electrochemically induced reduction of the MR-Ag + monolayer to the MR-Ag0 surface and the reoxidation of the MR-Ag0 surface control the hydrophilic-hydrophobic properties of the surface. The advancing contact angle of the MR-Ag0-functionalized surface is 59°, and the contact angle of the MR-Ag+- monolayerfunctionalized surface is 74°. Photoisomerization of the Ag 0-MR surface to the Ag0-SP state, followed by the oxidation of the Ag0 nanoclusters, results in the dissolution of the Ag+ ions into the electrolyte solution.
AB - A photoisomerizable thiolated nitrospiropyran SP, (1a), monolayer is assembled on a Au electrode by the primary deposition of thiolated nitromerocyanine isomer 1b as a monolayer on the electrode, followed by the irradiation of the surface with visible light, λ > 475 nm. The surface coverage of nitrospiropyran units (1a) on the electrode is 2 × 10 -10 mole cm-2. Irradiation of the electrode with UV light, 320 nm < λ < 360 nm, results in the nitromerocyanine, MR, monolayer on the electrode that binds Ag+ ions to the phenolate units. The Ag+ ions associated with the MR monolayer undergo cyclic reduction to surface-confined Ag0 nanoclusters, and reoxidation and dissolution of the Ag0 nanoclusters to Ag+ ions associated with the monolayer are demonstrated. The electron-transfer rate constants for the reduction of Ag+ to Ag0 and for the dissolution of Ag0 were determined by chronoamperometry and correspond to k etred = 12.7 s-1 and ket DX = 10.5 s-1, respectively. The nanoclustering rate was characterized by surface plasmon resonance measurements, and it proceeds on a time scale of 10 min. The size of the Ag0 nanoclusters is in the range of 2 to 20 nm. The electrochemically induced reduction of the MR-Ag + monolayer to the MR-Ag0 surface and the reoxidation of the MR-Ag0 surface control the hydrophilic-hydrophobic properties of the surface. The advancing contact angle of the MR-Ag0-functionalized surface is 59°, and the contact angle of the MR-Ag+- monolayerfunctionalized surface is 74°. Photoisomerization of the Ag 0-MR surface to the Ag0-SP state, followed by the oxidation of the Ag0 nanoclusters, results in the dissolution of the Ag+ ions into the electrolyte solution.
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U2 - 10.1021/la061101z
DO - 10.1021/la061101z
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C2 - 17129019
AN - SCOPUS:33845982576
SN - 0743-7463
VL - 22
SP - 10483
EP - 10489
JO - Langmuir
JF - Langmuir
IS - 25
ER -