Use of Raman spectroscopy tools allied to electrochemistry to investigate the mechanisms involved in the oxidation of amino-acids on copper electrodes

• Grant number: 13/02849-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Lauro Tatsuo Kubota
• Grantee: Victor Costa Bassetto
• Supervisor: Phillip N. Bartlett
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Southampton, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/04043-0 - Use of copper alloys for electrochemical detector of amino acids in ion chromatography., BP.MS

Abstract

The project here presented aims to study the mechanisms, through Raman spectroscopy and electrochemical measurements, which dictates the formation of copper II oxide over the copper electrode surface in alkaline media. Understanding this mechanism is fundamental to the project developed, due to the fact it involves the oxidation of amino acids on a copper, and copper alloy electrodes. There is a straight relation between copper II oxide and the oxidation of amino acids; therefore, it is of extreme importance understanding the formation of copper II oxide to optimize the parameters to alloy the oxidation of this biomolecules. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BASSETTO, VICTOR COSTA; RUSSELL, ANDREA E.; KUBOTA, LAURO TATSUO; BARTLETT, PHILIP N.. Preparation of copper sphere segment void templates for electrochemical SERS and their use to study the interaction of amino acids with copper under potentiostatic control. Electrochimica Acta, v. 144, p. 400-405, OCT 20 2014. (11/04043-0, 08/57805-2, 13/02849-3)