Title |
Study on Electrochemical Property of Self-Assembled Viologen Monolayers Using Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM) Method |
Authors |
이동윤(Lee, Dong-Yun) ; 박상현(Park, Sang-Hyun) ; 박재철(Park, Jae-Chul) ; 권영수(Kwon, Young-Soo) |
Keywords |
Viologen ; Resonant Frequency Shift ; Electrochemical Behavior ; EQCM ; Cyclic Voltammetry |
Abstract |
We fabricated the monolayers onto QCM by self-assembly using viologen, which has been widely used as electron acceptor. A gold electrode of the QCM was cleaned by piranha solution and prepared the ethanol-acetonitrile(1:1) solution with 2 m mol/l viololgen compounding of pure hi gas. We determined the time dependence to resonant frequency shift during self-assembly process and the electrochemical behavior of the self-assembled viologen monolayers by cyclic voltammetry. With increasing scan rate, the redox peak current of the viologen increased linearly. This was signified that the redox reaction was reversible. The EQCM measurements revealed the anions transfer during redox reactions, respectively. From the EQCM data, the well-defined shape peaks were nearly equal charges by cyclic voltammetry. |