A carbon nanotube [CNT]/Co3O4 composite is introduced as a catalyst for the air electrode of lithium-air [Li/air] batteries. Co3O4 nanoparticles are successfully attached to the sidewall of the CNT by a hydrothermal method. A high discharge capacity and a low overvoltage indicate that the CNT/Co3O4 composite is a very promising catalyst for the air electrode of Li/air batteries.

Strong quantum confinement and low dielectric screening impart single-walled carbon nanotubes with exciton-binding energies substantially exceeding kBT at room temperature. Despite these large binding energies, reported photoluminescence quantum yields are typically low and some studies suggest that photoexcitation of carbon nanotube excitonic transitions can produce free charge carriers. Here ...

We fabricated a thermostable quinoprotein aldose sugar dehydrogenase (tPQQ-ASD derived from a hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum) immobilized electrode. The electrode was prepared by immobilizing agarose gel mixed with the enzyme and carbon nanofiber (CNF) on a carbon paste (CP) electrode containing p-benzoquinone (BQ) as an electron mediator. The electrocatalytic response was ...

A comparative study was made between developed chemically modified carbon paste electrodes and PVC membrane electrodes for the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The carbon paste electrode modified with cetyltrimethylammonium-tetrachloropalladate(II) (CTA-TClP) provides a more sensitive and stable device than that shown by electrodes with an inner reference solution. The...

Levedopa was sensitively determined based on electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) mechanism through enhancing the weak ECL of electro-oxidized luminal in presence of levodopa, on a multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-modified electrode. Under optimal conditions, the relative ECL emission/levodopa concentration plot was found to be linear from 1.0×10-9 to 1.7×10-7 M and a detection limit of ...

Aggregated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are difficult to be manipulated. Various approaches have been carried out for making nanotube probes, including selection of longest protruding tube from a nanotube aggregate adhered onto substrate [1], direct synthesis of oriented CNTs on a porous surface via metal catalytic pyrolysis [2] and mechanical attachment of CNTs onto an AFM tip under dark-field opti...

Fast and sensitive response electrochemical sensor based on CoFe2O4 nanoparticle and 1-buthyl-3-methyl imidazolium bromide room temperature ionic liquids carbon paste electrode (CoFe2O4/NP/ILs/CPE) is fabricated for the determination of Xanthine (Xt) in the presences of Caffeine in fish and fruit samples. In the first step, CoFe2O4</su...

the electrocatalytic oxidation of captopril (cap) was studied by modified carbon nanotubes paste electrode in the presence of isoproterenol (ispt) using cyclic voltammetry (cv), chronoamperometry and square wave voltammetry (swv). also, the values of catalytic rate constant (k), and electron transfer coefficient (α) for cap were calculated. the mechanism of ca electrochemical behavior at the mo...