Correlation of film structure and molecular oxygen reduction at nitrogen doped amorphous carbon thin film electrochemical electrodes |
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Authors: | Aiping Zeng Marcela MM Bilek David R McKenzie Peter A Lay |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Physics, The University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia;2. School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia |
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Abstract: | Nitrogen doped amorphous carbon (a-C:N) thin film electrodes with a range of film structures have been deposited using a filtered cathodic vacuum arc system. The correlation between film structure and electro-reduction of molecular oxygen in aqueous media at the electrodes has been explored. In aqueous 0.1 M NaOH, dioxygen reduction is inhibited at all the a-C:N electrodes compared with that at glassy carbon electrodes. The potential of the dioxygen reduction current peak shifts negatively at a-C:N electrodes as the sp3 C fraction in the a-C:N materials increases, while the current peak height decreases simultaneously. The a-C:N electrodes possess high sensitivity for investigating the mechanism of dioxygen reduction. It was found that the catalytic H2O2 reduction to H2O on carbon materials is attributed to oxygen species at sp2 C sites. |
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