• 文献标题:   The Influence of Graphene on the Electrical Communication Through Organic Layers on Graphite and Gold Electrodes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZONG XD, KONG N, LIU JQ, YANG WR, CAO MM, GOODING JJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, selfassembled monolayers sams, electrical communication, gold electrode, graphite electrode
  • 出版物名称:   ELECTROANALYSIS
  • ISSN:   1040-0397 EI 1521-4109
  • 通讯作者地址:   Qingdao Univ
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1002/elan.201300246
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

The influence of graphene on the electrical communication through organic layers fabricated on graphite and gold electrodes is investigated. These layers were prepared by in situ reductive adsorption of 4-amino-benzoic acid in the presence of NaNO2 and HCl to have surface bound carboxylic acid functionalities, followed by covalent attachment of 1-aminopyrene via an amide coupling reaction to have surface bound pyrene groups for graphene immobilization via noncovalent pi-pi stacking interaction. The coverage of the layers created via reductive adsorption on graphite electrodes was found to be much higher than that on gold electrodes. It was revealed that graphene significantly enhances the electrical communication through the layers on graphite electrodes but on gold electrodes the enhancement effect through the layers was only minor. However, when gold electrodes were modified with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of propanethiol the subsequent immobilization of graphene resulted in a significant enhancement of the electrical communication. It is also found that immobilization of graphene could affect the electron transfer between the redox probe, pyrene and the underlying electrodes. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to characterize the graphene sheets. Cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were also used to characterize the stepwise modified electrodes.