Diamond-Modified AFM Probes: From Diamond Nanowires to Atomic Force Microscopy-Integrated Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (12) ◽  
pp. 4936-4941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Smirnov ◽  
Armin Kriele ◽  
René Hoffmann ◽  
Eugenio Sillero ◽  
Jakob Hees ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 626-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Kavan ◽  
Zuzana Vlckova Zivcova ◽  
Vaclav Petrak ◽  
Otakar Frank ◽  
Pavel Janda ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Eifert ◽  
Waldemar Smirnov ◽  
Stefan Frittmann ◽  
Christoph Nebel ◽  
Boris Mizaikoff ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. C1-C9
Author(s):  
Е. А. Kulesh ◽  
D. G. Piliptsou ◽  
A. V. Rogachev ◽  
J. X. Hong ◽  
N. N. Fedosenko ◽  
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Boron-doped carbon coatings have been produced by a method combining the deposition of a pulsed carbon plasma coating and a boron flow formed as a result of the evaporation of a boron target by pulsed YAG: Nd3+ laser irradiation. Phase, chemical composition, structure, and mechanical properties of composite boron-carbon coatings have been determined. Changes in the coatings’ roughness depending on the boron concentration have been established using atomic force microscopy. It has been shown that the grain size is on the rise with increasing boron concentration. Raman spectroscopy has revealed that at a boron concentration of 43.2 at. %. There is a sharp increase in the ID/IG ratio, which indicates the carbon component’s graphitization. Low ID/IG ratios are observed in the coating at low boron concentrations (no more than 17.4 at. %), suggesting a high content of carbon atoms with sp3 bond hybridization. The coating studies, carried out by X-ray photoelectron microscopy, showed that boron could be in a free state or in the form of carbide or oxide depending on the concentration in the coating. In this case, with an increase in boron concentration, there is a decrease in the concentration of carbon atoms in the state with sp3 bond hybridization, accompanied by an increase in the number of B-C bonds and a reduction in the boron concentration not associated with carbon and oxygen. These coating and chemical composition features determine the boron concentration’s established non-monotonic nature on their microhardness, elastic and mechanical properties. Keywords: composite carbon coatings, boron-doped, atomic force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, microhardness, scratch.


2006 ◽  
Vol 956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Bonnauron ◽  
Charles Agnes ◽  
Pascal Mailley ◽  
Jean-Charles Arnault ◽  
Jacques de Sanoit ◽  
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ABSTRACTBiotin was grafted onto boron doped nanocrystaline diamond electrode through a four-step-chemical process. First step of grafting was electro-chemical reduction of p-4,nitro diazonium salts. The grafting was characterized using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and fluorescence analysis. XPS analysis and curve fitting procedure lead to the identification of different bond states of carbon present in the grafted film and highlights difference of coverage rate between samples. AFM highlights the non-mononuclear aspect of the diazonium electrografting. Fluorescence measurements with avidin recognition prove the efficient of the grafting.


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