Electrocatalytic reduction of hydroxylamine on copper immobilized platinum surface: Heterogeneous kinetics and sensing performance
A Cu electrode can reduce hydroxylamine (HA) in KCl solution but losses its activity very quickly. However, while Cu particles are immobilized on a Pt surface, the resultant electrode showed excellent catalytic activities towards HA reduction reactions compared to those shown by a Cu or Pt electrode...
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Published in | Electrochimica acta Vol. 318; pp. 486 - 495 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford
Elsevier Ltd
20.09.2019
Elsevier BV |
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Summary: | A Cu electrode can reduce hydroxylamine (HA) in KCl solution but losses its activity very quickly. However, while Cu particles are immobilized on a Pt surface, the resultant electrode showed excellent catalytic activities towards HA reduction reactions compared to those shown by a Cu or Pt electrode. On the Pt-Cu surface, HA molecules involved two electron transfer reduction reaction yielding ammonia as an end product. The HA reduction process follows a first order kinetics on the Pt-Cu surface. In this study, heterogeneous electron transfer kinetics was studied to unveil the reduction pathway. It was observed that the reduction process occurs by a concerted mechanism having an intrinsic barrier of 0.24 eV. The formal potential of the reduction process was found to be −0.49 V with respect to Ag/AgCl (sat. KCl) reference electrode. The developed Pt-Cu electrode may be used as a HA sensor which exhibited a linear range from 5 to 110 μM HA with a limit of detection of 0.628 μM and good selectivity towards HA in water with recovery from 99 to 110%.
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ISSN: | 0013-4686 1873-3859 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.06.058 |