Electrochemistry at electrified soft interfaces : novel approaches to old problems

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dc.contributor.authorLiljeroth, Peter
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Chemical Technologyen
dc.contributor.departmentKemian tekniikan osastofi
dc.contributor.labLaboratory of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistryen
dc.contributor.labFysikaalisen kemian ja sähkökemian laboratoriofi
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-10T09:33:41Z
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dc.date.issued2002-09-28
dc.description.abstractThis thesis addresses some known difficulties in the field of liquid | liquid electrochemistry by presenting novel means of controlling mass transfer, monolayermodification of the interface, and probing interfacial reactivity. A novel rectangular channel flow electrochemical cell suitable for studying charge transfer at liquid | liquid interfaces is presented. The organic phase is immobilised using a gelling agent, while the aqueous phase flows past the interface. This creates an asymmetric diffusion regime, providing diagnostic criteria to determine, for example, the direction of the ion transfer. One of enduring problems concerning phospholipid adsorption at liquid | liquid interfaces has been the inability to determine and control the exact nature of the adsorbed monomolecular layer. This difficulty is addressed by a combination of the Langmuir-Blodgett technique and the use of an electrochemical cell as a substrate. It is shown that reproducible layers of known surface pressure can be deposited at the interface and that the deposition surface pressure has a great influence on the behaviour of the layer. The latter part of this thesis concerns the study of reactivity at liquid | liquid interfaces. To this end, the potential of ring-disk ultramicroelectrodes as probes for scanning electrochemical microscopy is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. In particular, the disk-generation/ring-collection mode of operation is considered. The interaction of two species with the substrate under investigation can be followed simultaneously from a single tip current-distance measurement to the substrate. This method is then applied to investigate the partitioning of iodine across a liquid-liquid interface. A facile method to determine the lipophilicity of potentially unstable charged products of electron transfer reactions is reported. This is achieved by local electrolysis at a Pt coated micropipette and subsequent transfer of the electrogenerated ions across a polarisable liquid | liquid interface supported at the tip of the micropipette. The formal potential of ion transfer can then be used to give a measure of its relative lipophilicity.en
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dc.identifier.isbn951-22-6119-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/2219
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:fi:tkk-001890
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dc.publisherHelsinki University of Technologyen
dc.publisherTeknillinen korkeakoulufi
dc.relation.haspartPeter Liljeroth, Cristoffer Johans, Kyösti Kontturi, José A. Manzanares. Channel Flow at an Immobilised Liquid | Liquid Interface. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. Vol. 483 (2000), pp. 37-46. [article1.pdf] © 2000 Elsevier Science. By permission.
dc.relation.haspartPeter Liljeroth, Annika Mälkiä, Vincent J. Cunnane, Anna-Kaisa Kontturi, Kyösti Kontturi. Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers at Liquid-Liquid Interface. Langmuir. Vol. 16 (2000), pp. 6667-6673. [article2.pdf] © 2000 American Chemical Society. By permission.
dc.relation.haspartPeter Liljeroth, Christoffer Johans, Christopher J. Slevin, Bernadette M. Quinn, Kyösti Kontturi. Micro Ring-Disk Electrode Probes for Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy. Electrochemistry Communications. Vol. 4 (2002), pp. 67-71. [article3.pdf] © 2002 Elsevier Science. By permission.
dc.relation.haspartPeter Liljeroth, Christoffer Johans, Christopher J. Slevin, Bernadette M. Quinn, Kyösti Kontturi. Disk-Generation / Ring-Collection Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: Theory and Application. Analytical Chemistry. Vol. 74 (2002), pp. 1972-1978. [article4.pdf] © 2002 American Chemical Society. By permission.
dc.relation.haspartPeter Liljeroth, Bernadette M. Quinn, Kyösti Kontturi. Lipophilicity of Ions Electrogenerated at a Pt Coated Micropipette Supported Liquid-Liquid Interface. Electrochemistry Communications. Vol. 4 (2002), pp. 255-259. [article5.pdf] © 2002 Elsevier Science. By permission.
dc.subject.keywordelectrochemistryen
dc.subject.keywordliquid-liquid interfaceen
dc.subject.keywordLangmuir-Blodgett techniqueen
dc.subject.keywordchannel flow cellen
dc.subject.keywordscanning electrochemical microscopyen
dc.subject.otherChemistryen
dc.titleElectrochemistry at electrified soft interfaces : novel approaches to old problemsen
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