Room-temperature Electrochemical Reduction of Epitaxial Magnetite Films to Epitaxial Iron Films

Author

Zhen He
Rakesh V. Gudavarthy
Jakub A. Koza
Jay A. Switzer, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

The electrochemical reduction of oxides to metals has been studied for decades. Earlier work produced polycrystalline bulk metals. Here, we report that pre-electrodeposited epitaxial face-centered cubic magnetite thin films can be electrochemically reduced to epitaxial body-centered cubic iron thin films in aqueous solution on single-crystalline gold substrates at room temperature. This technique opens new possibilities to produce special epitaxial metal/metal oxide heterojunctions and a wide range of epitaxial metallic alloy films from the corresponding mixed metal oxides. © 2011 American Chemical Society.

Recommended Citation

Z. He et al., "Room-temperature Electrochemical Reduction of Epitaxial Magnetite Films to Epitaxial Iron Films," Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (ACS), Jan 2011.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1021/ja203975z

Department(s)

Chemistry

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0002-7863

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2011 American Chemical Society (ACS), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2011