Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry

The significance of nanoimpact electrochemistry (NIE) lies in its simplicity and effectiveness in providing crucial information about the properties of nanoparticles (NPs), such as their sizing. Herein, NIE is applied for the first time to study the ingress of NPs into well‐defined nanocavities. The...

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Main Authors: Hila Sagi-Cohen, Pavel Savchenko, Daniel Mandler
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Language:English
Published: Wiley-VCH 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202500022
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description The significance of nanoimpact electrochemistry (NIE) lies in its simplicity and effectiveness in providing crucial information about the properties of nanoparticles (NPs), such as their sizing. Herein, NIE is applied for the first time to study the ingress of NPs into well‐defined nanocavities. The latter are formed using the NP‐imprinted matrix approach, where Ag NPs adsorbed on a microelectrode are surrounded by an electropolymerized aryldiazonium matrix followed by the anodic dissolution of the NPs. The ingress of Ag NPs into the empty cavities is detected chronoamperometrically by applying a constant voltage microelectrode. It is found that the nanocavities show high selectivity, where only NPs having the same size and capping agents as those used for the imprinting can be detected by NIE. A high match of 84% between the size of the Ag NPs entering the same size of nanocavities is observed for a mixture of two‐sized Ag NPs.
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spelling doaj-art-bacbb3e6dda24bdd9cf29486d8464e952025-08-20T03:14:01ZengWiley-VCHChemElectroChem2196-02162025-07-011215n/an/a10.1002/celc.202500022Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact ElectrochemistryHila Sagi-Cohen0Pavel Savchenko1Daniel Mandler2Institute of Chemistry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9190401 IsraelInstitute of Chemistry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9190401 IsraelInstitute of Chemistry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9190401 IsraelThe significance of nanoimpact electrochemistry (NIE) lies in its simplicity and effectiveness in providing crucial information about the properties of nanoparticles (NPs), such as their sizing. Herein, NIE is applied for the first time to study the ingress of NPs into well‐defined nanocavities. The latter are formed using the NP‐imprinted matrix approach, where Ag NPs adsorbed on a microelectrode are surrounded by an electropolymerized aryldiazonium matrix followed by the anodic dissolution of the NPs. The ingress of Ag NPs into the empty cavities is detected chronoamperometrically by applying a constant voltage microelectrode. It is found that the nanocavities show high selectivity, where only NPs having the same size and capping agents as those used for the imprinting can be detected by NIE. A high match of 84% between the size of the Ag NPs entering the same size of nanocavities is observed for a mixture of two‐sized Ag NPs.https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202500022nanocavitiesnanoimpact electrochemistriesselective detections
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selective detections
title Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry
title_full Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry
title_fullStr Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry
title_full_unstemmed Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry
title_short Studying the Ingress of Ag Nanoparticles into Imprinted Nanocavities by Nanoimpact Electrochemistry
title_sort studying the ingress of ag nanoparticles into imprinted nanocavities by nanoimpact electrochemistry
topic nanocavities
nanoimpact electrochemistries
selective detections
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