Preparation of multi-walled carbon nanotube/amino-terminated ionic liquid arrays and their electrocatalysis towards oxygen reduction

Abstract

Arrays of aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube-ionic liquid (MIL) were assembled on silicon wafers (Si-MIL). Formation of Si-MIL was confirmed by FTIR, AFM and Raman techniques. The electrochemical measurements indicated that Si-MIL showed good electrocatalysis towards oxygen reduction compared with MIL drop-cast on a glassy carbon electrode. © 2010 by the authors.