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Electrochemical analysis of nanostructured iron oxides using cyclic voltammetry and scanning electrochemical microscopy

Electrochemical analysis of nanostructured iron oxides using cyclic voltammetry and scanning electrochemical microscopy
Electrochemical analysis of nanostructured iron oxides using cyclic voltammetry and scanning electrochemical microscopy
Iron oxides in general and especially hematite, ?-Fe2O3, have become promising materials for the alkaline water electrolysis and photoelectrochemical water splitting, respectively. In the present study electrocatalytic electrodes with a thin film of ?-Fe2O3 and with vertically aligned ?-Fe2O3 nanowires were prepared. Cyclic voltammograms of the ?-Fe2O3 nanowires revealed differences including a series of three unreported cathodic signals when compared to previously published voltammograms for polycrystalline iron oxides. The generation-collection mode of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) using nanostructured Pt microdisc probes was exploited to detect soluble reaction products formed at the voltammetric peaks of the ?-Fe2O3 electrode. SECM tip-substrate voltammetry unexpectedly showed that the reduction of FeVI to FeIII on the cathodic sweep is accompanied by significant O2 evolution.
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Bülter, Heinz
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Denuault, Guy
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Dosche, Carsten
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Dosche, Carsten
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Bülter, Heinz, Denuault, Guy, Mátéfi-Tempfli, Stefan, Mátéfi-Tempfli, Mária, Dosche, Carsten and Wittstock, Gunther (2016) Electrochemical analysis of nanostructured iron oxides using cyclic voltammetry and scanning electrochemical microscopy. Electrochimica Acta. (doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2016.11.108).

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Iron oxides in general and especially hematite, ?-Fe2O3, have become promising materials for the alkaline water electrolysis and photoelectrochemical water splitting, respectively. In the present study electrocatalytic electrodes with a thin film of ?-Fe2O3 and with vertically aligned ?-Fe2O3 nanowires were prepared. Cyclic voltammograms of the ?-Fe2O3 nanowires revealed differences including a series of three unreported cathodic signals when compared to previously published voltammograms for polycrystalline iron oxides. The generation-collection mode of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) using nanostructured Pt microdisc probes was exploited to detect soluble reaction products formed at the voltammetric peaks of the ?-Fe2O3 electrode. SECM tip-substrate voltammetry unexpectedly showed that the reduction of FeVI to FeIII on the cathodic sweep is accompanied by significant O2 evolution.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 November 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 November 2016
Organisations: Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 403546
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403546
ISSN: 0013-4686
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ORCID for Guy Denuault: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8630-9492

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Date deposited: 05 Dec 2016 11:59
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:43

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Author: Heinz Bülter
Author: Guy Denuault ORCID iD
Author: Stefan Mátéfi-Tempfli
Author: Mária Mátéfi-Tempfli
Author: Carsten Dosche
Author: Gunther Wittstock

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