Preparation of multi-walled carbon nanotube/amino-terminated ionic liquid arrays and their electrocatalysis towards oxygen reduction

Zhijuan Wang, Rose-Marie Latonen, Carita Kvarnström, Ari Ivaska, Li Niu

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    Abstract

    Arrays of aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube-ionic liquid (MIL) were assembled on silicon wafers (Si-MIL). Formation of Si-MIL was confirmed by ATR-FTIR, AFM and Raman techniques. The electrochemical measurements indicated that Si-MIL showed good electrocatalysis towards oxygen reduction compared with MIL drop-cast on a glassy carbon electrode.
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Pages (from-to)672–681
    JournalMaterials
    Volume3
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • multi-walled carbon nanotubes
    • arrays
    • ionic liquid
    • electrocatalysis

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