Issue 40, 2015

Impact electrochemistry: colloidal metal sulfide detection by cathodic particle coulometry

Abstract

The determination of the size and concentration of colloidal nano and microparticles is of paramount importance to modern nanoscience. Application of the particle collision technique on metal and metal oxide nanoparticles has been intensively explored over the past decade owing to its ability to determine the particle size and concentration via reactions including the inherent oxidation or the reduction of nanoparticles as well as surface reactions catalysed by the nanoparticles. Transition metal dichalcogenide particles were previously quantified using the anodic (oxidative) particle coulometry method. Here we show that cathodic (reductive) particle coulometry can be favorably used for the detection of metal sulfide colloidal particles. The detection of sulfides of cobalt and lead was performed using the particle collision technique in this work. The presence of spikes confirmed the viability of detecting new and larger particles from compounds using reductive (cathodic) potentials. Such an expansion of the impact particle coulometry method will be useful and applicable to the determination of concentration and size of colloidal metal sulfide nanoparticles in general.

Graphical abstract: Impact electrochemistry: colloidal metal sulfide detection by cathodic particle coulometry

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Aug 2015
Accepted
08 Sep 2015
First published
28 Sep 2015

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 26997-27000

Author version available

Impact electrochemistry: colloidal metal sulfide detection by cathodic particle coulometry

C. S. Lim and M. Pumera, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 26997 DOI: 10.1039/C5CP05004A

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