Larsson, M;
Yousefi, A;
Elmas, S;
Lindén, JB;
Nann, T;
Nydén, M;
(2017)
Electroactive Polyhydroquinone Coatings for Marine Fouling Prevention—A Rejected Dynamic pH Hypothesis and a Deceiving Artifact in Electrochemical Antifouling Testing.
ACS Omega
, 2
(8)
pp. 4751-4759.
10.1021/acsomega.7b00485.
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Abstract
Nanometer-thin coatings of polyhydroquinone (PHQ), which release and absorb protons upon oxidation and reduction, respectively, were tested for electrochemically induced anti-biofouling activity under the hypothesis that a dynamic pH environment would discourage fouling. Antifouling tests in artificial seawater using the marine, biofilm-forming bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus proved the coatings to be ineffective in fouling prevention but revealed a deceiving artifact from the reactive species generated at the counter electrode (CE), even for electrochemical bias potentials as low as |400| mV versus Ag|AgCl. These findings provide valuable information on the preparation of nanothin PHQ coatings and their electrochemical behavior in artificial seawater. The results further demonstrate that it is critical to isolate the CE in electrochemical anti-biofouling testing.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Electroactive Polyhydroquinone Coatings for Marine Fouling Prevention—A Rejected Dynamic pH Hypothesis and a Deceiving Artifact in Electrochemical Antifouling Testing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsomega.7b00485 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b00485 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 American Chemical Society. This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1572415 |
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