Electrochemistry at nanoscale electrodes: Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and SWNT-templated metal nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 10017-10025

  Dudin, Petr V ^a   Snowden, Michael E ^a   MacPherson, Julie V ^a   Unwin, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electrochemistry; electrodeposition; electron transfer; kinetics; nanoscale electrodes; nanowires; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

BUTLER-VOLMER KINETICS; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; IDEALIZED MODELS; INTERNAL DIAMETERS; INTRINSIC RATE CONSTANT; METAL NANOWIRE; NANO SCALE; REDOX-ACTIVE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SOLUTION MENISCUS; SUB-100 NM; SUBMILLIMETERS; TEMPLATED ELECTRODEPOSITION; VOLTAMMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CARBON; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENZYME KINETICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PALLADIUM; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLATINUM; RATE CONSTANTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; MICROELECTRODE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; METALS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84555218610     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203823f     Document Type: Article

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