The development of highly active and low-cost electrocatalysts with excellent durability is a major challenge for glucose catalysis. Here, we report fast electrodeposition method preparing new NiCuO flower-like nanostructure non-noble metals. catalyst shows significant efficiency electrooxidation, which reaches an oxidative peak mass activity 376.80 A g?1 retains 66% the original current over 1...

Conductive and porous polythiophene (PTh) films, which are used as host matrices for Pt and Pt/Pd nanoparticles, are synthesized electrochemically. PTh films containing nanometre-sized Pt and Pt/Pd bimetallic particles are electro synthesized on an indium tin oxide (ITO) glass plate by voltammetric cycling between –0.1 to +1V (Vs Ag/AgCl / 2M NaCl). The ensuing PTh electrode, modified with nano...

The electrocatalysts utilized as the prospective electrodes in fuel cells and high efficient energy conversion devices require both the interconnected channels for efficient electrolyte transportation and the superior catalytic activity with long service life. In this work, nanoporous gold with the rigid skeletons in three dimensions is partially decorated by porous platinum shell containing na...

A novel non-precious multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—supported metal oxide electrocatalyst was developed for methanol electrooxidation in alkaline medium. The catalyst was fabricated by simultaneous electrodeposition of copper-cobalt-nickel ternary nanostructures (CuCoNi) on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified with CNTs. The proposed electrode was characterized using X-ray diffraction ...

Reverse osmosis concentrate from wastewater reclamation contains biorefractory trace organic contaminants that may pose environmental or health hazard. Due to its high conductivity, electrochemical oxidation of brine requires low voltage which is energetically favourable. However, the presence of chloride ions may lead to the formation of chlorinated by-products, which are likely to exert an in...

It is highly desirable to develop affordable, energy-saving, and highly-effective technologies to alleviate the current water crisis. In this work, we reported a low-cost electrochemical filtration device composing of a conductive cotton filter anode and a Ti foil cathode. The device was operated by gravity feed. The conductive cotton filter anodes were fabricated by a facile dying method to in...

Cooperative behaviour of an array of microelectrodes: The interplay of bistable reaction kinetics with global coupling results in a spontaneous sequential activation of electrodes when the applied current is increased.

Pure palladium thorn clusters were synthesized using the electrodeposition method. The clusters were composed of several thorns growing on one basis. Each thorn was composed of hexahedral units with decreasing sizes. The whole thorn was a single crystal along the <220> direction. The cluster was synthesized by square wave electrodeposition. By changing the deposition factors, a mixture of thorn...

F a c u l t y M e n t o r Research has given Michael Thompson an understanding of the life of a research chemist, and helped him decide to work toward becoming one. He first became involved in research, under the guidance of Professor Penner, during winter 2004. Michael has been working on developing a unique method for synthesizing nanowires out of antimony. He had the opportunity to present h...

Luminol electrochemiluminescence is dramatically increased by about five hundred times by taking full advantage of both electrochemical reduction and electrochemical oxidation using simple linear sweep voltammetry, leading to sensitive detection.