Fabrication, characterization, and chemical etching of Ag nanoelectrodes

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 385-389

  Noël, Jean Marc ^a   Velmurugan, Jeyavel ^a   Gökmeşe, Ebru ^a,b   Mirkin, Michael V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HITIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Electrochemistry; Etching; Nanoelectrode; Scanning electrochemical microscopy; Silver electrode

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; FABRICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA SOLUTION; CHEMICAL ETCHING; CONTROLLED CHEMICAL ETCHINGS; NANO-ELECTRODES; NANOELECTRODE; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SILVER ELECTRODE; STEADY-STATE VOLTAMMETRY;

ANALYTIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84878504745     PISSN: 14328488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10008-012-1849-6     Document Type: Article

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