Electrogeneration and Characterization of Poly(methylene blue) Thin Films on Stainless Steel 316 Electrodes—Effect of pH

Autor: José Juan García-Jareño, Jerónimo Agrisuelas, Zoe Vargas, Francisco Vicente
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 29, Iss 16, p 3752 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules29163752
Popis: Methylene blue was electropolymerized on the surface of stainless steel 316. The addition of sodium oxalate and working at a pH near 11 allowed us to obtain steel electrodes coated with an electroactive polymer. This polymer shows electrochromic properties like those of the monomer, but also exhibits electroactivity at more positive potentials, which is associated with the active centers in the bridges between monomeric units. A digital video electrochemistry study allowed us to simultaneously quantify, on the one hand, the color changes on the entire surface of the stainless steel and on the other to separate the contribution of the active centers of the phenothiazine ring and of the inter-monomer bonds to the overall polymer response by means of assessing the mean color intensities. A reduction mechanism for the polymer, compatible with the pH variation of the observed electrochemical behavior, was proposed.
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