Interfacial Charge and Mass Transfer at Polymer Modified Electrodes: Diagnosing the Rate Limiting Step

该项目属于分析化学和表面化学的一般领域，以及聚合物修饰电极的电化学子领域。纽约州立大学布法罗分校的Stanley Bruckenstein教授和英国布里斯托尔大学的a . Robert Hillman教授将合作对聚合物修饰电极的界面质量和电荷转移的动力学和机制进行全面而明确的研究。利用石英晶体微平衡技术，这些研究人员将诊断电活性聚合物薄膜中限速的质量和电荷转移过程，并研究聚合物结构和溶液组成的功能等过程。由此得出的聚合物结构和溶液组成与动力学控制机制的相关性，为基于聚合物修饰电极的传感器和分子电子器件的合理设计提供了依据。这项研究将在纽约州立大学布法罗分校进行，希尔曼教授被任命为化学副教授。该项目将对复杂电化学系统中的质量和电荷转移产生新的基本理解，解决困扰聚合物修饰电极电化学的许多令人不安的问题，促进在这一技术重要领域工作的许多研究小组的进展。促进化学领域的国际合作研究。

This project is in the general area of analytical and surface chemistry and in the subfield of electrochemistry at polymer modified electrodes. Professor Stanley Bruckenstein of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Professor A. Robert Hillman of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom will collaborate on a comprehensive and definitive investigation of the kinetics and mechanisms of interfacial mass and charge transfer at polymer modified electrodes. Using quartz crystal microbalance techniques, these researchers will diagnose rate limiting mass and charge transfer processes in electroactive polymer films and study such processes as functions of polymer structure and solution composition. The resulting correlation of polymer structure and solution composition with mechanism of kinetic control should enable the rational design of sensors and molecular electronic devices based on polymer modified electrodes. This research will be conducted at the State University of New York at Buffalo where Professor Hillman holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry. %%% This project will give rise to new fundamental understandings of mass and charge transfer in complex electrochemical systems, resolve many troubling questions which plague electrochemistry at polymer modified electrodes, facilitate progress among many research groups working in this technologically important area, and enable international collaborative research in chemistry.