Localised polymerisation of acrylamide using single-barrel scanning electrochemical cell microscopy

Abstract

Single-barrel scanning electrochemical cell microscopy has been adapted for polymerisation of acrylamide in droplet cells formed at gold electrode surfaces. Localised electrochemical atom transfer radical polymerisation enables controlled synthesis and...

Five years of scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM): new insights and innovations

“…In the first category, a small number of studies have demonstrated the synthetic capabilities of SECCM, including a study by Taras et al who used SECCM to pattern an organic monolayer (from an aryl diazonium salt) onto a surface, 147 and a study by Mohammed et al where SECCM was used to form polyacrylamide. 148 A unique study by Hengsteler et al demonstrated SECCM as a 3D printer, printing free-standing metal structures with dimensions <100 nm. 149 Most common in recent SECCM-based electrosynthesis is the deposition of NPs, with Au NPs synthesised by Bernal et al , 150 Ag NPs synthesised by Caniglia et al , 151 entire NP arrays deposited by Rahman et al , 152 and a thorough study by Ciocci et al which demonstrated that the formation of NPs in the droplet contact could be monitored in situ with IRM.…”