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  1. Metal anodes meet ionic liquids: An interfacial perspective

    Article • Applied Physics Reviews, January 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  2. Mechanical polishing as an improved surface treatment for platinum screen-printed electrodes

    Article • Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  3. Electroreduction of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Evidence of an EC 2 Mechanism

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  4. Achievement of Prolonged Oxygen Detection in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids on Mechanically Polished Platinum Screen-Printed Electrodes

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  5. Electrochemical studies of hydrogen chloride gas in several room temperature ionic liquids: mechanism and sensing

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  6. Void-Assisted Ion-Paired Proton Transfer at Water-Ionic Liquid Interfaces

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  7. Sensors for Highly Toxic Gases: Methylamine and Hydrogen Chloride Detection at Low Concentrations in an Ionic Liquid on Pt Screen Printed Electrodes

    Article • Sensors, October 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  8. Electrochemical Behavior of Chlorine on Platinum Microdisk and Screen-Printed Electrodes in a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, October 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  9. Electrochemical Detection Using Ionic Liquids

    Article • October 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  10. Towards improving the robustness of electrochemical gas sensors: impact of PMMA addition on the sensing of oxygen in an ionic liquid

    Article • Analytical Methods, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  11. Electrochemical Oxidation and Sensing of Methylamine Gas in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, August 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  12. Inside Cover: Electrochemical Characterization of an Oleyl-coated Magnetite Nanoparticle-Modified Electrode (ChemElectroChem 7/2014)

    Article • ChemElectroChem, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  13. Electrochemical Characterization of an Oleyl-coated Magnetite Nanoparticle-Modified Electrode

    Article • ChemElectroChem, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  14. Ligand-Induced Structural, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Variations in Tricarbonyl Rhenium(I) Tetrazolato Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  15. Chronoamperometric response at nanoscale liquid–liquid interface arrays

    Article • Electrochimica Acta, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  16. Oxygen reduction voltammetry on platinum macrodisk and screen-printed electrodes in ionic liquids: Reaction of the electrogenerated superoxide species with compounds used in the paste of Pt screen-printed electrodes?

    Article • Electrochimica Acta, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  17. One-step assembly of Re(i) tricarbonyl 2-pyridyltetrazolato metallacalix[3]arene with aqua emission and reversible three-electron oxidation

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  18. Synthesis, Photophysical and Electrochemical Investigation of Dinuclear Tetrazolato-Bridged Rhenium Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  19. Inside Cover: Behavior of Lysozyme at the Electrified Water/Room Temperature Ionic Liquid Interface (Chem. Asian J. 11/2012)

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  20. Behavior of Lysozyme at the Electrified Water/Room Temperature Ionic Liquid Interface

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  21. Redox Properties of a Rhenium Tetrazolato Complex in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Assessing the Applicability of the Stokes–Einstein Equation for a Metal Complex in Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, April 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  22. Comparative study of screen printed electrodes for ammonia gas sensing in ionic liquids

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  23. Array of water|room temperature ionic liquid micro-interfaces

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Damien WM Arrigan, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  24. Recent advances in the use of ionic liquids for electrochemical sensing

    Article • The Analyst, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  25. Potentiometric determination of coextraction constants of potassium salts in ion-selective electrodes utilizing a nitrobenzene liquid membrane phase

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Eric Bakker, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  26. Synchrotron Radiation/Fourier Transform-Infrared Microspectroscopy Study of Undesirable Water Inclusions in Solid-Contact Polymeric Ion-Selective Electrodes

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, July 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  27. Voltammetry in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Comparisons and Contrasts with Conventional Electrochemical Solvents.

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  28. Assessing ion-exchange properties and purity of lipophilic electrolytes by potentiometry and spectrophotometry

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Eric Bakker, Dr Debbie S Silvester

  29. Measuring the solubility of benzoic acid in room temperature ionic liquids using chronoamperometric techniques

    Article • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  30. Effect of Water on the Electrochemical Window and Potential Limits of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, December 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  31. Electroreduction of Chlorine Gas at Platinum Electrodes in Several Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Evidence of Strong Adsorption on the Electrode Surface Revealed by Unusual Voltammetry in Which Currents Decrease with Increasing Voltage Scan Rates

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, December 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  32. Direct electrochemistry of horseradish peroxidase immobilized in a chitosan–[C4mim][BF4] film: Determination of electrode kinetic parameters

    Article • Bioelectrochemistry, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  33. Electrochemical Reduction of Benzoic Acid and Substituted Benzoic Acids in Some Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  34. The electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen at activated platinum electrodes in room temperature ionic liquids as solvents

    Article • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  35. The Electrochemical Reduction of Hydrogen Sulfide on Platinum in Several Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  36. Oxidation of Severalp-Phenylenediamines in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids:  Estimation of Transport and Electrode Kinetic Parameters

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  37. Electrooxidation of the Iodides [C 4 mim]I, LiI, NaI, KI, RbI, and CsI in the Room Temperature Ionic Liquid [C 4 mim][NTf 2 ]

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, April 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  38. Electroreduction of Sulfur Dioxide in Some Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, March 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  39. Voltammetric Characterization of the Ferrocene|Ferrocenium and Cobaltocenium|Cobaltocene Redox Couples in RTILs

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, February 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  40. The electrochemistry of simple inorganic molecules in room temperature ionic liquids

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, January 2008, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  41. Electrochemical Ammonia Gas Sensing in Nonaqueous Systems: A Comparison of Propylene Carbonate with Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • Electroanalysis, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  42. Electrochemical Kinetics of Ag|Ag + and TMPD|TMPD +• in the Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid [C 4 mpyrr][NTf 2 ]; toward Optimizing Reference Electrodes for Voltammetry in RTILs

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  43. Electrochemical Oxidation of Nitrite and the Oxidation and Reduction of NO 2 in the Room Temperature Ionic Liquid [C 2 mim][NTf 2 ]

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  44. Mechanistic Studies of the Electro-oxidation Pathway of Ammonia in Several Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  45. Voltammetric Studies of Gold, Protons, and [HCl2]-in Ionic Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, June 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  46. An Electrochemical Study of the Oxidation of Hydrogen at Platinum Electrodes in Several Room Temperature Ionic Liquids †

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  47. Electrochemical Studies of Gold and Chloride in Ionic Liquids.

    Article • ChemInform, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  48. Using XPS to determine solute solubility in room temperature ionic liquids

    Article • The Analyst, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  49. The electrochemical oxidation and reduction of nitrate ions in the room temperature ionic liquid [C2mim][NTf2]; the latter behaves as a ‘melt’ rather than an ‘organic solvent’

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  50. Electrode Kinetic Studies of the Hydroquinone−Benzoquinone System and the Reaction between Hydroquinone and Ammonia in Propylene Carbonate: Application to the Indirect Electroanalytical Sensing of Ammonia

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  51. Coulometry on the Voltammetric Timescale: Microdisk Potential-Step Chronoamperometry in Aprotic Solvents Reliably Measures the Number of Electrons Transferred in an Electrode Process Simultaneously with the Diffusion Coefficients of the Electroactive S...

    Article • Electroanalysis, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  52. The Electrochemistry of Vitamin B12 in Ionic Liquids and Its Use in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Vicinal Dibromoalkanes

    Article • Electroanalysis, November 2006, Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  53. Electrochemical reduction of nitrobenzene and 4-nitrophenol in the room temperature ionic liquid [C4dmim][N(Tf)2]

    Article • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  54. An Electrochemical Study of PCl 3 and POCl 3 in the Room Temperature Ionic Liquid [C 4 mpyrr][N(Tf) 2 ]

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, November 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  55. Electrochemistry in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: A Review and Some Possible Applications

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, October 2006, De Gruyter

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  56. Dynamic and Static Quenching of Fluorescence by 1−4 nm Diameter Gold Monolayer-Protected Clusters

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  57. Electrochemical studies of gold and chloride in ionic liquids

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Debbie S Silvester

  58. Technical Aspects

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Debbie S Silvester