Chemicals and Equipment Used in Electrochemical Experiments

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Chemicals: Ultrapure water with an electrical conductivity of 18.2 MΩ cm-1 produced from nano-filter (EMD Millipore Corporation, UK) was used for cleaning, making solutions, and doing electrochemical measurements. Cleaning solvents such as ethanol was purposed from Decon Laboratories (USA), acetone was purposed from Fisher Chemicals, USA, and isopropanol was purchased from Macron Fine Chemicals, USA. Chloroauric acid, hydrogen chloride, nitric acid, sodium phosphate monobasic, and sodium phosphate bibasic were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich, USA. L-ascorbic acid were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich, USA Gold micro wire (~0.01 mm diameter) was purchased …show more content…

Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 13212−13215). First, 20 mL nanopure water (18.2 MΩ) was boiled with a constant stirring in a 25 mL RB flask fitted with condenser. 778 µL of 3.8 mM H2PtCl4.6H2O (chloroplatinic acid) was added to the boiling water. After 1 minute, 244 µL of solution containing 38 mM trisodium citrate and 2.6 mM citric acid was injected at once into the solution. Without further waiting, 122 µL of 21 mM sodium borohydride solution was mixed into the boiling solution. Within 10-60 s colorless solution turned into blackish solution showing the evidence of formation of citrate capped ~4 nm size platinum seed particles. This method is a standard protocol to prepare seed platinum nanoparticles, therefore, these NPs were used without …show more content…

Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 6651−6657). One mL of platinum seed solution just prepared was mixed with a 29 mL nanopure water and was stirred continuously in a water bath by placing the water bath on a hotplate with an electromagnetic device. 45 µL of 0.1 M H2PtCl4.6H2O was injected into stirred solution. 500 µL of solution containing 34 mM trisodium citrate and 71 mM L-ascorbic acid was added into the stirred solution. After fitting with reflex condenser to a RB flask, temperature of the heating bath was raised to 1200C gradually starting from room temperature at 50C/min. rate. Within 25-40 minutes, faint yellowish color changed to black revealing the formation of bigger platinum nanoparticles. Boiling was continued for 1 h to complete reaction. The particles size were characterized by Nanosight instrument (Nanosight500, Malvern,

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