CALVENTE PACHECO , Juan José

El estudio de los procesos electroquímicos de los compuestos orgánicos en la interfase Hg/disolución, constituye una de las líneas de investigación clásicas de la Electroquímica, originando dos escuelas con diferente metodología: aqu&eacut ... e;lla que estudia los procesos de adsorción, desde un punto de vista termodinámico; y la que se ocupa...

In situ IR difference spectra of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid monolayers deposited on gold have been recorded as a function of both solution pH* and substrate's potential. IR spectra recorded under voltammetric conditions indicate that the potential-induced ionization of the monolayer is a slow process, involving a simultaneous rearrangement of...

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Analytical expressions describing the electrochemical impedance spectrum of a metallic electrode modified with an acid thiol monolayer, that undergoes a potential-induced proton transfer, have been derived from an electrostatic model of the interface. The frequency dispersion of the electrode impedance is described by an equivalent circuit that...

A new cobalt metal-organic framework (2D-Co-MOF) based on well-defined layered double cores that are strongly connected by intermolecular bonds has been developed. Its 3D structure is held together by π-π stacking interactions between the labile pyridine ligands of the nanosheets. In aqueous solution, the axial pyridine ligands are exchanged by...

Evaluation of the proton-coupled electron transfer thermodynamics of immobilized hemin is challenging due to the disparity of its electrochemical titration curves reported in the literature. Deviations from the one-electron, one-proton transfer at circumneutral pHs have been commonly ascribed to either the formation of dimeric species or the...

The synthesis of a new microporous metal-organic framework (MOF) based on two secondary building units, with dinuclear cobalt centers, has been developed. The employment of a well-defined cobalt cluster results in an unusual topology of the Co2-MOF, where one of the cobalt centers has three open coordination positions, which has no precedent in...

Non-turnover voltammetry is a sensitive tool to characterize the electrochemical properties of redox proteins. However, the catalytically competent oxidation states of most peroxidases do not display the required electrochemical reversibility. In this report, we circumvent this limitation and exploit the voltammetric response associated with...

Supported Fe-doped Pd-nanoparticles (NPs) are prepared via soft transformation of a PdFe-metal oraganic framework (MOF). The thus synthesized bimetallic PdFe-NPs are supported on FeOx@C layers, which are essential for developing well-defined and distributed small NPs, 2.3 nm with 35% metal loading. They are used as bifunctional nanocatalysts...

Electron-transfer kinetics of the thermophilic protein Plastocyanin fromPhormidium laminosumadsorbed on 1,ω-alkanedithiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)deposited on gold have been investigated. The standard electron-transfer rate constant hasbeen determined as a function of electrode−protein distance and solution viscosity over abroad...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are receiving increased attention as new functional nanomaterials for the development of electrochemical sensors. Herein, we develop an electrochemical platform for non-enzymatic hydrogen peroxide detection built with a composite of two-dimensional cobalt MOF nanosheets and Nafion (2D-Co-MOF@Nafion). The...

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Anions whose specific adsorption involves a proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) include adsorbed OH (OHad), which plays an enormously relevant role in many fuel-cell reactions. OHad formation has often been found to happen in alkaline solutions at potentials more negative than expected from a Nerstian shift, and this has been proposed as...

Surface reconstituted metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer appealing properties for electrocatalysis due to their unique structural and compositional advantages. In this work, a controlled potential-induced reconstruction of a two-dimensional cobalt metal-organic framework for boosting oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media is reported....

Redox thermodynamics and kinetics of plastocyanin from Phormidium laminosum, and of azurin from Pseudonomas aeruginosa, have been investigated as a function of temperature by protein film voltammetry. To this purpose, both proteins have been physisorbed on a pyrolytic graphite edge electrode. A pronounced negative shift of the plastocyanin...

Increasing the thermal stability of immobilized proteins is a motivating goal for improving the performance of electrochemical biodevices. In this work, we propose the immobilization of crosslinked plastocyanin from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum by simultaneous incubation of a mixture of plastocyanin and the coupling...

Post-translational modifications frequently modulate protein functions. Lysine acetylation in particular plays a key role in interactions between respiratory cytochrome c and its metabolic partners. To date, in vivo acetylation of lysines at positions 8 and 53 has specifically been identified in mammalian cytochrome c, but little is known about...

Understanding the molecular basis of the thermal stability and functionality of redox proteins has important practical applications. Here, we show a distinct thermal dependence of the spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of two plastocyanins from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum and their mesophilic counterpart from...