Manufacturing and Evaluation of Activated Carbon Electrodes for Desalination Purposes via Multi-Channel Capacitive Deionization

Water scarcity is an increasing problem around the world due to growing population and more frequent weather extremities. Desalination, the process in which salt water is converted into freshwater, is a sensible option to expand the drinking water supply by accessing the vast salt water resources on Earth. Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a...

Electrochemical cocaine (bio)sensing. From solid electrodes to soft junctions

In this review, we describe the importance and possible electrochemical screening methods for the illicit drug – cocaine. It covers the detection at bare and modified solid electrodes, soft electrified junctions and nanopore sensing. Emphasis is given on interfacial modification techniques and electroanalytical parameters for cocaine...

Carbon-fiber tips for scanning probe microscopes and molecular electronics experiments

We fabricate and characterize carbon-fiber tips for their use in combined scanning tunneling and force microscopy based on piezoelectric quartz tuning fork force sensors. An electrochemical fabrication procedure to etch the tips is used to yield reproducible sub-100-nm apex. We also study electron transport through singlemolecule junctions...

Nanofabrication of electrodes with sub-5 nm spacing for transport experiments on single molecules and metal clusters