Electrochimica Acta, Vol.48, No.6, 741-747, 2003
Oxygen reduction on Au nanoparticle deposited boron-doped diamond films
Nanoparticle Au was deposited on as grown boron-doped diamond (BDD). The coverage and the morphology of the deposited Au particles were investigated by means of the linear sweep voltammeter and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). From SEM, the gold electrodeposited randomly as small spherical particles with an average diameter of 60nm. The applications of the as grown BDD film deposited,by Au for electrocatalytic reduction of the oxygen in acidic solution were investigated. The catalytic efficiency of the Au deposited as grown BDD with the coverage of 0.06 is near 20 times larger than that of polycrystalline gold. The mechanism of the highly electrocatalytic active was investigated by ac impedance and hydrodynamic voltammetric methods.
Keywords:nanoparticle gold;boron-doped diamond;oxygen reduction;AC impedance;rotating disk electrode