This study aimed at investigating the thermal and electrochemical behavior of montmorillonite clay-8hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) film in the absence and presence of aqueous Fe(III) ions. The solid film characterization by means of UV spectroscopy, thermal (TG/DTG and TG-DTA, simultaneous) studies, SEM and optical images, and XRD suggested the formation of the ternary complex type: {Pt/[[Si-O] n [Fe(III)(OH 2) 3 (8-HQ) k ]} 3-n-k , with thermal stability up to 300°C. The electrochemical study was carried out on a platinum electrode modified by mechanical deposition of a thin solid film of the binary composite (SWy-1:8-HQ) from an aqueous suspension. The mechanical stability of the film was followed by performing 80 cyclic voltammograms. The electrochemical behavior of the modified electrode was investigated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) at different ferric ions concentration (C Fe(III)), followed by a study of the effect of the scan rate (v) with a fixed C Fe(III) ions. In the CVs, two independent pairs of current peaks, A/D and C/B, were observed. For Fe(III) ions in solution, log i p versus log v relationship shows a process controlled first by adsorption (pair of peaks A/D) and then by diffusion control (pair of peaks C/B). The current function i p /v 1/2 versus v and i p a /i p c versus v allowed a suggestion of two homogeneous coupled chemical reactions associated with CE and EC mechanisms, respectively, both with fast reversible chemical reactions. The first investigation of a modified electrode showed good sensitivity (S = 25.1 lA/lmol L-1) to low concentrations of ferric ions and detection limit [LOD = (2.4 ± 0.01) lmol L-1 ] and high sensitivity to traces of O 2 , showing that this system has great analytical potentials.

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The thermal and electrochemical behavior of montmorillonite clay-8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) film was studied in the absence and presence of aqueous Cu(II) ions. The suggested formation of the ternary complex type: {Pt/ [[ Si-O] n [Cu(II)(OH 2) n (8-HQ) k ]} 3-n-k , with thermal stability up to 350°C, was studied, based on UV-spectroscopy, thermal (DTG-DSC, molecular fluorescence and XRD. The Pt/binary composite film (SWy-1:8-HQ) interphase composed of montmorillonite (SWy-1) with 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) was investigated by electrochemical techniques analyzing the cyclic voltammograms (CVs) obtained at different scan rates (v) and copper(II) ion concentrations. The mechanical stability of the thin films was demonstrated by performing 80 successive voltammetric cycles. Two pairs of redox peaks, indicated by peaks A/D and C/B were observed. For Cu(II) ions in solution, the log i p 9 log v relationships showed processes controlled by adsorption, peaks A/D, and by diffusion, peaks C/B. The analysis of i p / v 1/2 and i pa /i pc versus v suggested two homogeneous coupled reactions, being both reversible and fast kinetic chemical reactions, associated to the mechanisms chemical-electrochemical (CE) and electrochemical-chemical (EC), respectively. The modified electrode showed a good sensitivity to low concentrations of Cu(II) ions, which opens the possibility of being used in chemical analysis. Keywords Organic montmorillonite composites Á TG-DTA simultaneous, Cu(II) ions Á Reversible coupled reactions Á Cu(I)/Cu(II) redox species Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (