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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2009, Article ID 384601, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2009/384601 Research Article Electrochemical Reduction of Uniformly Dispersed Pt and Ag Nanodots on Carbon Fiber Electrodes Yi-Hao Pai and Gong-Ru Lin Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road Section 4, Taipei 10617, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Gong-Ru Lin, grlin@.tw Received 11 May 2009; Accepted 31 August 2009 Recommended by Y. Wang Electrochemical characterization of the uniformly dispersed Pt and Ag nanodots synthesized after in situ scalable electron-beam reduction on copper grid and carbon-fiber electrode is demonstrated. By employing plasma pretreatment to produce functional organosilicon micronetworks-based reaction sites on copper grid, the size and standard deviation of the electrochemically reduced metallic nanodots can be strictly confined. When detuning the accelerating voltage of electron-beam from 3 to 120 kV, the reshaped nanodot diameter enlarges from 12.7 ± 0.8 to 18.3 ± 3.6 nm due to the gradual self-aggregation. In comparison with sputtering method, the electroactivity of Pt nanodot covered carbon fiber electrode obtained after electron-beam reduction exhibits a larger 2 electroactive surface (Spt ) of 16.56 cm /mg. The electron-beam reduction provides a better dispersion of the reduced Pt nanodots based catalysts on carbon-fiber electrode, promoting the utilization efficiency of these nanoscale catalyst (defined as the ratio of electroactive to geometric area) from 2.5% to 7%. Copyright © 2009 Y.-H. Pai and G.-R. Lin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative