Stochasticity in single-molecule nanoelectrochemistry: Origins, consequences, and solutions

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9662-9671

  Singh, Pradyumna S ^a   Kätelhön, Enno ^b   Mathwig, Klaus ^a   Wolfrum, Bernhard ^b   Lemay, Serge G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

nanochannel; nanoelectrochemistry; nanofluidics; random walks; redox cycling; single molecule electrochemistry; stochastic electrochemistry

Indexed keywords

NANO CHANNELS; NANOELECTROCHEMISTRY; RANDOM WALK; REDOX CYCLING; SINGLE-MOLECULE;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYME KINETICS; EXPERIMENTS; NANOFLUIDICS;

MOLECULES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84870442775     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3031029     Document Type: Article

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