2o SIMTEQ Química de Coordenação: o legado de Alfred Werner 26 a 28 de agosto de 2013 Local: Departamento de Química Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG http://simteq.qui.ufmg.br Aldo Gorgatti Zarbin Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil Email: [email protected] Multifunctional materials based on carbon nanotubes/Prussian blue nanocomposites Nanocomposite materials formed by the combination of Prussian Blue (PB) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have several interesting properties. PB has a general formula FeIII4[FeII(CN)6]3.nH2O and presents important redox, ferromagnetic and multi-electrochromic properties. We recently developed an innovative route to prepare a CNT/PB composite materials with high sensitivity to H2O2 detection, based on an in situ electrochemical reaction between the ironbased compounds present in the cavities of carbon nanotubes [1,2] and the ferricyanide ions in solution [3,4]. This approach can be used to prepare different kind of electrodes, including transparent and electrochromic electrodes, and has been extended to other kind of ferricianide compounds, as Ruthenium-based analogues of PB [5]. All the synthetic routes involved in the process, starting from the synthesis of CNTs and going to the preparation and characterization of the nanocomposites will be discussed in this talk. Characterization by cyclic voltammetry, UV-Vis spectroscopy, XRD, SEM, surface plasmon resonance, AFM and Raman spectroscopy will be presented, and the results will be discussed based on the chemical interaction between the PBs and the CNTs. A model of the PB growth over the CNTs wall will be proposed. Application as electrochemical sensor (as for example for hydrogen peroxide, in which the sensors demonstrated 1 very low detection limits - 4.6010-9 mol L-1 - and very high sensitivity - 97.2 A cm-2 M-1- which represents one of the best response ever described in the literature for this kind of sensor), electrochromic material [6], electrocatalyst for environmental application [7] and in neuroscience [8] will be also presented, and the results compared to the obtained using neat PBs films. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: National Institute of Science and Technology of Carbon Nanomaterials, CNPq, CAPES, Fundação Araucária (Pronex/NENNAM). References [1] M.C. Schnitzler, M.M. Oliveira, D. Ugarte, A.J.G. Zarbin, Chem. Phys. Lett., 2003. [2] M.C. Schnitzler, A.S. Mangrich, W.A.A. Macedo, J.D. Ardisson, A.J.G. Zarbin, Inorg. Chem. 2006. [3] E, Nossol, A.J.G. Zarbin, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2009. [4] E. Nossol, A.J.G. Zarbin, J. Mater. Chem. 2012. [5] S. Husmann, E. Nossol, A.J.G. Zarbin, submitted, 2012. [6] E. Nossol, A.J.G. Zarbin, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cell, 2013. [7] E. Nossol, A. Mossol, A.J.G. Zarbin, A. Bond, RSC Adv., 2013. [8] S. Husmann, C. Cunha, A.J.G. Zarbin, MS in preparation. 2