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Boron‐Doped Diamond Dual‐Plate Deep‐Microtrench Device for Generator‐Collector Sulfide Sensing

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Publication Date2015-07-14
JournalElectroanalysis
AuthorsHarriet M. Harvey, Andrew J. Gross, Paula Brooksby, Alison J. Downard, Stephen J. Green
InstitutionsUniversity of Exeter, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
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Abstract A BDD‐BDD dual‐plate microtrench electrode with 6 μm inter‐electrode spacing is investigated using generator‐collector electrochemistry and shown to give microtrench depth‐dependent sulfide detection down to the μM levels. The effect of the microtrench depth is compared for a “shallow” 44 μm and a “deep” 180 μm microtrench and linked to the reduction of oxygen to hydrogen peroxide which interferes with sulfide redox cycling. With a deeper microtrench and a fixed collector potential at −1.4 V vs. SCE, two distinct redox cycling potential domains are observed at 0.0 V vs. SCE (2‐electron) and at 1.1 V vs. SCE (6‐electron).