Tellurium (Te) with a flower-like superstructure has been successfully synthesized through a low temperature biphasic solvothermal reaction utilizing diethyldithiocarbamato tellurium (IV) (TDEC) as Te source and 2,2 0 -dithiodibenzoic acid (DTBA) as a reducing agent. Characterizations by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), selected-area electron diffraction (SAED) show that the as-prepared product consists of well-aligned needle-like t-Te nanorods growing radically from the core. These nanorods have a diameter ranging from tens to hundreds of nanometers and a length of several micrometers, and the Raman spectra are greatly affected by their diameter. Fluorescence measurement reveals that the t-Te superstructures produce blue-violet emission.
An indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode modified with monolayer clay/[Ru(phen) 2 (dC18bpy)] 2+ (phen= 1,10-phenanthroline, dC18bpy = 4,4′-dioctadecyl-2,2′ bipyridyl) hybrid film has been fabricated by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) method. Atomic force microscopy revealed that the single-layered hybrid film of clay/[Ru(phen) 2 (dC18bpy)] 2+ (denoted as Clay-Ru) was closely packed at a surface pressure of 25 mN⋅m −1 and had a thickness of 3.4±0.5 nm. Cyclic voltammograms showed that the redox current of Ru(Ⅱ) complex decreased when incorporated into the clay film, suggesting that the clay layer acts as a barrier against electron transfer. When applied to oxidizing the mononucleotide of guanosine 5′-monophosphate (GMP), a large catalytic oxidative current was achieved on the Clay-Ru(Ⅱ) modified ITO electrode at the external potential above 900 mV (vs. Ag|AgCl|KCl ) and, more significantly, this response was further enhanced by light irradiation (λ>360 nm), in which the photocurrent is increased about 11 times in comparison with that of a bare ITO. Mechanism of the photoelectrocatalytic effect was proposed in terms of the reduction of the photoelectrochemically generated Ru(Ⅲ) complex in the Clay-Ru film by GMP.clay-modified electrodes, Langmuir-Blodgett method, hybrid film, photocurrent
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