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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Bioanal Chem. 2021 Jul 23;413(27):6737–6746. doi: 10.1007/s00216-021-03539-6

Table 2.

Binding energy (eV) and percentage contributions of XPS C 1s peaks for the untreated and electrochemically treated CFMEs.

Binding Energy (eV) Control (%) KCl (%) H2O2 (%) HCl (%) KOH (%)
sp2 C 283.7 36.3 37.3 50.1 38.9 36.3
sp3 C 285.2 41.1 41.3 28.2 41.6 37.5
Sum of sp2 C and sp3 C 77.4 78.6 78.3 80.5 73.8
C-O 287.0 11.1 10.8 11.9 9.8 15.6
C=O 288.9 9.3 8.2 7.9 8.5 8.4
π-π* 291.1 2.1 2.4 1.3 1.2 2.2