Glassy carbon graphite compared

Their unique structural, mechanical, and electrical properties differ greatly from other carbon materials used in electrochemical measurements such as diamond, graphite, and glassy carbon. As compared to graphite, SWCNTs have a greater surface area and a much lower density. The unique differences of these materials... 

Nitrophenyl groups covalently bonded to classy carbon and graphite surfaces have been detected and characterized by unenhanced Raman spectroscopy in combination with voltammetry and XPS [4.292]. Difference spectra from glassy carbon with and without nitrophenyl modification contained several Raman bands from the nitrophenyl group with a comparatively large signal-to-noise ratio (Fig. 4.58). Electrochemical modification of the adsorbed monolayer was observed spectrally, because this led to clear changes in the Raman spectrum. 

The models incorporate two microscopic parameters, the site density and the critical nucleus size. A fit of experimental current transients to the models allows conclusions, for example, concerning the effect of additives on nucleation rate. Fabricus et al. found by analysis of current transients that thiourea increases the nucleation density of copper deposited on glassy carbon at low concentration, but decreases it at higher concentration [112], Schmidt et al. found that Gold nucleation on pyrolytic graphite is limited by the availability of nucleation sites [113], Nucleation density and rate were found to depend on applied potential as was the critical nucleus size. Depending on concentration, critical nuclei as small as one atom have been estimated from current transient measurements. Michailova et al. found a critical nucleus of 11 atoms for copper nucleation on platinum [114], These numbers are typical, and they are comparable to the thermodynamic critical radii [86],... 

In the present work, a variation of elasticity and plasticity of glassy carbons with the development of the graphitic structure could be readily compared by the parameter, indentation elasticity index k/E. ... 

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