Nanostructured carbon electrodes

Abstract

In its conducting form, carbon has proven to be a versatile, robust and high performing electrode material in areas such as energy conversion, energy storage and even medical bionics. In our laboratories we have been interested in the fabrication and utilization of nanostructured electrodes based on more recently discovered forms of carbon. These include carbon nanotubes and graphene. In its conducting form, carbon has proven to be a versatile, robust and high performing electrode material in areas such as energy conversion, energy storage and even medical bionics. In our laboratories we have been interested in the fabrication and utilization of nanostructured electrodes based on more recently discovered forms of carbon. These include carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Catalysing the production of multiple arm carbon octopi nanostructures

“…Conductive, carbon nanostructures have been promoted as a route to achieving such lightweight large surface area materials [1]. It is suggested that the octopus-like nanostructures are an ideal solution for fulfilling these requirements, owing to their low-density and large surface area.…”

Anodized Edge-plane pyrolytic graphite for electroanalysis of pantoprazole in tablet dosage forms and human urine samples

“…A high density of the edge sites occurred at the open ends of nanotubes or defects along their side walls in CNT along with a large surface area of the CNT film may provide a high ability to this material to promote the electron-transfer reaction. 21 In Fig. 3, the voltammograms obtained at the ErGO-modified GC is also compared with that obtained at the CNT-modified GC and anodized EPPG electrodes.…”

“…20,21 Their fundamental electrochemical properties have been also investigated so that for some benchmark redox couples such as [Fe(CN) 6 ] 3-/4-36 and [Ru(NH 3 ) 6 ] 3 /2 37 they show fast electron transfer kinetics. From Fig.…”

“…19 Particularly, in recent years, nanostructured graphitic carbon forms such as carbon nanotubes and nanographenes have attracted increasing attention as electrode materials for electroanalytical sensing applications owing to their excellent electron-transfer ability and large surface area. 20,21 The electrochemistry of carbon-based graphitic materials has been well studied during the past few decades and it has been known that different forms of carbons, depending on their microstructural characteristics, show different electrochemical activities. 19,22 Therefore, in order to achieve better analysis results, it seems to be essential to select the best choice among different available carbon-based materials.…”

An experimental study of nonlinear behaviour of capacitance in graphene/carbon nanotube hybrid films

“…However, sustainability and price concerns give the need to be replaced for new transparent conductive materials with a high mechanical flexible material but low cost one [25]. Thus, there are daily efforts to fabricate transparent, conductive and flexible graphenebased material electrodes (TEs) and field effect transistors electrodes (FETs) [18][19][20][21][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40].…”