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Remarkable differences in the voltammetric response towards hydrogen peroxide, oxygen and Ru(NH3)63+ of electrode interfaces modified with HF or LiF-HCl etched Ti3C2Tx MXene

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An electrochemical study was performed on the behavior of Ti3C2Tx MXenes prepared by using either HF (MXene1) or LiF/HCl as etchants (MXene2). The use of two redox probes indicates the presence of a higher negative charge density on MXene2 in comparison to MXene1. The characterization of two nanomaterials shows that titanium and fluoride are present higher by one order of magnitude at the interface of MXene2, compared to MXene1. The high Ti and F content is accompanied by a 82-fold larger (249 μA·cm−2 vs. 5.64 μA·cm−2) anodic peak at the peak potential near 0.4 V (vs. Ag/AgCl). Similarly, the peak current on MXene2 is 317-fold higher for the oxygen reduction at pH 7.0 (at a voltage of −0.84 V) and 215-fold higher for the reduction of H2O2 at −0.89 V, when compared to MXene1.

Difference in electrochemical behavior of MXene prepared by HF (MXene1) and LiF/HCl (MXene2) as etchants.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV 17-0300. We would like to acknowledge the support received from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic under the project registration number 2018/23-SAV-1. This work is part of project which received funding from agency VEGA 02/0010/18 (Slovakia). This work was also made possible by NPRP grant # 9-219-2-105 from the Qatar National Research Fund (A Member of The Qatar Foundation). The finding achieved herein is solely the responsibility of the authors. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 777810.

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  1. Veronika Gajdosova and Lenka Lorencova contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 38, Slovak Republic

    Veronika Gajdosova, Lenka Lorencova, Filip Kveton & Jan Tkac

  2. Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 41, Slovak Republic

    Michal Prochazka, Maria Omastova & Matej Micusik

  3. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Simona Prochazkova

  4. Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska Dolina, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovak Republic

    Monika Jerigova & Dusan Velic

  5. International Laser Centre, Ilkovicova 3, Bratislava, 841 04, Slovak Republic

    Monika Jerigova & Dusan Velic

  6. Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar

    Peter Kasak

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Gajdosova, V., Lorencova, L., Prochazka, M. et al. Remarkable differences in the voltammetric response towards hydrogen peroxide, oxygen and Ru(NH3)63+ of electrode interfaces modified with HF or LiF-HCl etched Ti3C2Tx MXene. Microchim Acta 187, 52 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-4049-6

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