Hot electron-induced cathodic electrochemiluminescence of the Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)/S(2)O(8)(2-) system was investigated at an oil film-covered carbon paste electrode (CPE) under cathodic pulse polarization for the first time. Compared with other electrodes, the CPE is of lower background, better stability and reproducibility. The method is also applied to the determination of catechol. Under the optimum conditions, the linear correlation between the quenched ECL intensity (ΔI) and the logarithm of catechol concentration (logC(catechol)) was observed over the range of 2.0×10(-10) mol/L-4.0×10(-9) mol/L and 4.0×10(-9) mol/L-4.0×10(-7) mol/L with the limit of detection (LOD) of 2.0×10(-10) mol/L, which is lower than the other reported methods. The proposed method is applied to determine catechol in reservoir water. The mean recoveries of 83.3%-99.0% and the relative standard deviations (RSDs) of 0.8%-2.2% were obtained.
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Department of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, PR China. Electronic address:
The present study discusses the fabrication of a bimetallic material consisting of silver nanorods and gold nanospheres (designated Ag@Au), and its surface modification with 4-nitrothiophenol (PNTP) after deposition on an indium tin oxide (ITO) glass sheet, followed by laser irradiation at various wavelengths. The results indicate that the reduction of PNTP is more complete under irradiation at 532 nm due to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effects of the gold and silver nanomaterials. Moreover, the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of the PNTP adsorbed on the Ag@Au/ITO is found to be significantly stronger than that of PNTP adsorbed on Ag@Au alone, due to charge transfer (CT) at the interface.
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State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yu Tian Road, Shanghai 200083, China.
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Key Laboratory of Excited-State Materials of Zhejiang Province, and Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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Surveillance of iodine intake is important because either inadequate or excessive amount of iodine may lead to thyroid malfunctions. Herein, we report a method for fast iodide quantification based on a plasmonic hot electron-driven chemical reaction, which occurs on Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) coated with p-nitrothiophenol (PNTP) molecules. Upon resonant light illumination, hot electron-hole pairs are generated in the NPs.
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