An estimate of a frequency characterizing the electrochemical stability of a gold electrode modified by MHDA thiol in different ways

Abstract

A theoretical investigation aimed at estimating a characteristic frequency in the medium-low frequency domain in which the impedance response of a given interface measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is almost constant, constitutes the basic idea of this work. A theoretical model was subsequently applied to the data resulting from EIS measurements performed on gold electrodes modified by various ways of 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHDA) thiol functionalization. Analysis of these data revealed a direct relationship between the way the substrate was modified and this characteristic frequency