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Electrodeposition of gold nanoparticles from ionic liquid microemulsion

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Gold nanoparticles were electrodeposited directly for the first time from a new electrolyte system: water-in-ionic liquid (W/IL) microemulsion. The electrochemical behavior of Au(Ш) in W/IL microemulsion was investigated. The cyclic voltammetry (CV) result of Au(Ш) shows a pair of redox peak. The effect of precursor apparent concentration on the reduction peak current density is similar to that in homogeneous solution such as aqueous solution. The effect of scan rate on the reduction peak current density is different from that in homogeneous solution. Linear-sweep voltammograms result for a rotating disk electrode in the W/IL microemulsion suggests that the reduction is kinetically limited and not transport limited. And also the activation energy of the reaction was calculated to be 26.7 KJ mol−1. The gold electrodeposits were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. It is found that the gold electrodeposits are face-centered cubic and nanosized. Furthermore, the potential mechanism for the electrode reaction was proposed. In addition, the electrochemical properties of the gold nanoparticles were researched through the electro-oxidation of glycerol. The CV and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy studies demonstrate that the gold nanoparticles electrodeposited from W/IL microemulsion have much higher electro-catalytic activities than bare gold for glycerol oxidation.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20673036, J0830415) and Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 09JJ3025).

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  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 410082

    Chaopeng Fu, Haihui Zhou, Ding Xie, Lu Sun, Yifan Yin, Jinhua Chen & Yafei Kuang

  2. State Key Laboratory for Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 410082

    Haihui Zhou & Jinhua Chen

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Fu, C., Zhou, H., Xie, D. et al. Electrodeposition of gold nanoparticles from ionic liquid microemulsion. Colloid Polym Sci 288, 1097–1103 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-010-2238-2

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