WO2002035221A9 - Method for chlorine plasma modification of silver electrodes - Google Patents
Method for chlorine plasma modification of silver electrodesInfo
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- WO2002035221A9 WO2002035221A9 PCT/GB2001/004757 GB0104757W WO0235221A9 WO 2002035221 A9 WO2002035221 A9 WO 2002035221A9 GB 0104757 W GB0104757 W GB 0104757W WO 0235221 A9 WO0235221 A9 WO 0235221A9
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- This invention relates to the modification of metal electrodes and in particular to the chlorine plasma modification of silver electrodes.
- Silver electrodes coated with silver chloride layers have for many years formed the basis for medical electrodes due to the excellent charge transfer characteristics and non polarisability of the silver chloride material.
- the main applications of Ag/AgCl electrodes concern amperometric (current sensitive) and potentiometric (voltage sensitive) sensors.
- Ag/AgCl layers have formed the basis for many electrocardigram (ECG) electrodes and have been incorporated into both sensing devices and reference electrodes.
- Ag/AgCl electrodes One common way of producing Ag/AgCl electrodes is the electrochemical technique whereby chloride ions are deposited on the silver surface reacting therewith to form a silver chloride layer (AgCl) .
- Sintered Ag/AgCl electrodes have been used in the past as well as serigraphic inks . The latter is known as "thick film” technology and combines a mixture of silver and silver chloride particles trapped in a polymer.
- a common alternative to these methods is chemical chloriding, which is a technique applied in both thin and thick film technology.
- Ag/AgCl electrodes have been designed and adapted to thin-film technology in order to be used as micro-sensors .
- the present invention is directed to overcoming these problems and provides a method which can more closely control the formation and thickness of the silver chloride layer.
- the method also provides a silver chloride layer which is more uniform and stable in structure, thereby providing a more sensitive, stable and accurate reading.
- a method for the modification of a surface of a silver electrode wherein the surface is treated with a chlorine plasma.
- the silver electrode is in the form of a silver thin-film. More preferably, the silver electrode is fabricated by the evaporation of silver onto a glass plate to form a silver thin-film. The glass plate is preferably cleaned and coated with a thin metallic sub-layer prior to the addition of silver.
- the sub-layer is a chromium or nichrome sub-layer and is coated on the glass plate using a sputtering system.
- the sputtering system can be a Nordiko NM200/RFG1250 sputtering system using an inert plasma and a chromium target.
- the inert plasma is argon plasma.
- the modification of the surface of the silver electrode can take place in a plasma chamber.
- a surface of the silver electrode is bombarded with the chlorine plasma.
- the modification of the silver electrode takes place in a reaction ion etching (RIE) radio-frequency (RF) plasma chamber.
- RIE reaction ion etching
- RF radio-frequency
- the chamber is pumped down prior to the modification of the silver electrode.
- the plasma is in the form of a stream and is formed from a reactive gas. More preferably, the reactive gas is a halogen such as chlorine gas.
- the modification of the metal surface can take place in a plasma chamber. A surface of the metal is bombarded with the plasma stream.
- the modification of the metal takes place in a reaction ion etching (RIE) radio-frequency (RF) plasma chamber.
- RIE reaction ion etching
- RF radio-frequency
- the chamber is pumped down prior to the modification of the metal.
- the method is suitable, for example, for the treatment of metal electrodes and in particular for the treatment of silver electrodes in the form of a thin-film, possibly fabricated by the evaporation of the metal onto a glass plate.
- the invention extends to any metal item, e.g. an electrode, having a surface modified as herein described.
- Fig. 1(a) is a graph of the impedance spectrum of silver thin-film before treatment according to the present invention
- Fig. 1(b) is a graph of the impedence spectra of silver . thin-film after electrochloriding in a 0.5M KC1 solution;
- Fig. 1(c) is a graph of the impedence spectra of silver thin-film after treatment according to the present invention.
- Fig. 2(a) is a SEM view of the surface of silver thin-film after electrochloriding (x 2.5k);
- Fig. 2(b) is a SEM view of the surface of silver thin-film after treatment according to the present invention (x 15k) ;
- Fig. 3 is a graph of EDX measurements realised on silver thin-film showing spectra of Ag (white) and AgCl (red) ;
- Fig. 4 is a graph of XPS spectra of silver thin-film modified according to the present invention.
- Fig. 5 are graphs showing Ag 3d5/2 and Ag 3d5/2 binding energy shifts.
- Fig. 6 are graphs showing Cl 2p3/2 and Cl 2p3/2 binding energy shifts.
- Evaporation was carried out using an electron-beam chamber (Leybold L560E ⁇ Beam) , at an evaporation rate of 100A/s 9 , under high vacuum (2.10 "5 mbar) .
- the glass sides Prior to the evaporation stage, the glass sides were cleaned and then introduced into a Nordiko NM200/RFG1250 sputtering system, using an argon plasma and a chromium target. A sub-layer of chromium was deposited on the glass slide and this improved the adhesion of the silver thin-film to the glass slide when deposited thereon.
- the silver electrodes thus formed were then further treated as follows :-
- a portion of the electrode samples were encapsulated in an electrochemical cell, allowing an active electrode surface of 0.96 cm 2 .
- the electrodes were dipped into a 0.5M potassium chloride (KC1) solution.
- An anodic current of 0.98 mAmps was applied for several time durations (5s, 7s, 10s, 15s, 20s and 25s) .
- the chloride ions in the KCl solution migrated to the positive silver electrode and were deposited thereon.
- the chloride ions reacted with the silver and formed a layer of silver chloride (AgCl) .
- the electrochemical chloriding was performed using AutoLabTM instrumentation, for example a General Purpose Electrochemical System (GPES) and Frequency Response Analyser (FRA) .
- GPES General Purpose Electrochemical System
- FSA Frequency Response Analyser
- the plasma stream used was a pure chlorine plasma stream, in a Reaction Ion Etching (RIE) radio-frequency (RF) plasma chamber.
- RIE Reaction Ion Etching
- RF radio-frequency
- Table 1 1 to 100 mTorr: 5 to 500 Watts (per cm 2 ).: 1 to 50 seems (standard cm 3 ) of chlorine: 1ms to 5 seconds plasma time
- Electrochemical tests were then subjected to the following tests:- Electrochemical tests; X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) investigations; Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDX) analysis; and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis.
- XPS X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
- EDX Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- XPS investigations were carried out on a KRATOS XSAM 800 apparatus.
- the X-ray source was run with MgK X-rays at 240W (13.8 kV, 18mA).
- the non-treated electrode samples were first characterised by electrochemistry and SEM.
- the silver thin-films (Ag TF) deposited by evaporation technique have a very smooth surface and react poorly with the electrolyte (large impedance) , as shown in Figure 1(a) .
- XPS measurements were carried out on several sample electrodes treated with plasma streams other than chlorine plasma in order to determine the chemical nature and physical structure of the AgCl thin film formed from the second treatment process.
- the plasmas used were from similar reactive gases such as fluorine (Fl) as AgCl can be approximated to behave as any other form of silver halide; their electronic structure being very similar.
- the XPS results show energy peaks related to the Ag 3d and the Cl 2p electronic orbits as shown in Fig 4. The shifts in energy are related to changes within these electronic orbits.
- chlorine peaks on spectra show that the surface modification compound remains at the surface of the electrode sample after plasma treatment. Then, both chlorine and silver peaks are shifted towards lower energies.
- Fig 5 and 6 compare the value of these peaks to pure silver and chlorine theoretical peaks, as referred in literature [ref . Web + XPS Handbook] .
- Silver halides (Agl and AgF) Ag 3d 5/2 peaks show a ⁇ 0.27eV shift compared to pure silver.
- the silver peak of the plasma treated sample electrode is shifted by about ⁇ 0.4 for the same Ag 3d 5 2 peak.
- the energy shift spread is similar to the other silver halides tested.
- AgCl can be expected to behave in a similar manner to other forms of silver halide as the electronic structure of each are very similar. Nevertheless, the exact values can not be deducted using the energy peak values of the other silver halides, but does provide a close enough idea of the expected energy shift range.
- the texture and macro-appearance of the plasma electrodes are not similar to the electrochemical electrodes and this is clearly shown by comparison of Fig 2(a) and Fig 2(b) .
- the plasma electrodes gave a matt yellowish colour, as described for abnormally electrochlorided electrodes in Crenner et al .
- the colour of the sample electrodes turn from a white/yellowish shade to a brown/plum tint.
- the present invention provides a method for providing silver modification by chlorine, to produce thin-film silver electrodes with a very controlled surface. Such electrodes can provide quantitative quality of measurement.
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