Mimicking the Microbial Oxidation of Elemental Sulfur with a Biphasic Electrochemical Cell
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Título: | Mimicking the Microbial Oxidation of Elemental Sulfur with a Biphasic Electrochemical Cell |
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Autor/es: | Suárez-Herrera, Marco F. | Gamero-Quijano, Alonso | Solla-Gullón, José | Scanlon, Micheál D. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Electroquímica Aplicada y Electrocatálisis |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Química Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Electroquímica |
Palabras clave: | Sulfur oxidation | Polarised liquid|liquid interface | Interfacial assembly | Catalytic gold nanoparticles | Anion physisorption |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Química Física |
Fecha de publicación: | 22-oct-2021 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Electrochimica Acta. 2022, 401: 139443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139443 |
Resumen: | The lack of an artificial system that mimics elemental sulfur (S8) oxidation by microorganisms inhibits a deep mechanistic understanding of the sulfur cycle in the biosphere and the metabolism of sulfur-oxidising microorganisms. In this article, we present a biphasic system that mimics biochemical sulfur oxidation under ambient conditions using a liquid|liquid (L|L) electrochemical cell and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as an interfacial catalyst. The interface between two solvents of very different polarity is an ideal environment to oxidise S8, overcoming the incompatible solubilities of the hydrophobic reactants (O2 and S8) and hydrophilic products (H+, SO32–, SO42–, etc.). Furthermore, the interfacial AuNPs provide a catalytic surface onto which O2 and S8 can adsorb. Control over the driving force for the reaction is provided by polarising the L|L interface externally and tuning the Fermi level of the interfacial AuNPs by the adsorption of aqueous anions. Comparison of electrochemical measurements using a 4-electrode closed bipolar electrochemical cell and a L|L electrochemical cell confirmed that electron transfer reactions are possible between O2, gold and S8 in biphasic systems. |
Patrocinador/es: | M.D.S. acknowledges Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), under Grant No. 13/SIRG/2137 and the European Research Council through a Starting Grant (Agreement No. 716792). M.F.S.-H. acknowledges the “Universidad Nacional de Colombia” for allowing his sabbatical leave and the “Fundación Banco de la República” through the grant 4.562. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/118973 |
ISSN: | 0013-4686 (Print) | 1873-3859 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139443 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139443 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - LEQA - Artículos de Revistas |
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