Abstract Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were treated with a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid to introduce carboxylic acid groups to the nanotubes. Conducting polymer film was prepared by electrochemical polymerization of neutral red (NR). By using a layer‐by‐layer method, homogeneous and stable MWNTs and poly (neutral red) (PNR) multilayer films were alternately assembled on glassy carbon (GC) electrodes. With the introduction of PNR, the MWNTs/PNR multilayer film system showed synergy between the MWNTs and PNR, with a significant improvement of redox activity due to the excellent electron‐transfer ability of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and PNR. The electropolymerization is advantageous, providing both prolonged long‐term stability and improved catalytic activity of the resulting modified electrodes. The MWNTs/PNR multilayer film modified glassy carbon electrode allows low potential detection of hydrogen peroxide with high sensitivity and fast response time. As compared to MWNTs and PNR‐modified GC electrodes, the magnitude of the amperometric response of the MWNTs/PNR composite‐modified GC electrode is more than three‐fold greater than that of the MWNTs modified GC electrode, and nine‐fold greater than that of the PNR‐modified GC electrode. With the immobilization of glucose oxidase onto the electrode surface using glutaric dialdehyde, a biosensor that responds sensitively to glucose has been constructed. In pH 6.98 phosphate buffer, nearly interference‐free determination of glucose has been realized at ?0.2 V vs. SCE with a linear range from 50 µM to 10 mM and response time <10s. The detection limit was 10 µM glucose (S/N=3). 相似文献
Self‐assembled hollow nanosphere composites of polyaniline and Au nanoparticles (PANI‐p‐TSA/Au) were chemically synthesized from solutions containing p‐toluenesulfonic acid (p‐TSA) with the addition of gold chloride trihydrate as the oxidant. The composite materials were characterized by SEM, TEM, and a range of spectroscopic methods. Spectroscopic characterizations confirmed that the polymeric product is a form of doped PANI, while electron diffraction and X‐ray diffraction showed that elemental Au was present in the PANI‐p‐TSA/Au nanocomposites. The room temperature electrical conductivity of the PANI‐p‐TSA/Au nanocomposites was two orders of magnitude greater than a PANI‐p‐TSA obtained in the presence of ammonium persulfate as the oxidant under the same conditions.
The electrochemical behaviour of glassy carbon electrodes coated with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) from three different
sources and with different loadings has been compared, with a view to sensor applications. Additionally, poly(neutral red)
(PNR) was electrosynthesised by potential cycling on bare glassy carbon and on MWCNT-modified glassy carbon electrodes, and
characterised by cyclic voltammetry and scanning electron microscopy. Well-defined voltammetric responses were observed for
hexacyanoferrate (II) oxidation with differences between the MWCNT types as well as from loading. The MWCNT and PNR/MWCNT-modified
electrodes were applied to the oxidative determination of ascorbate, the electrocatalytic effects observed varying according
to the type of nanotubes. Comparison was made with electrodes surface-modified by graphite powder. All modified electrode
configurations with and without PNR were successfully employed for ascorbate oxidation at +0.05 V vs saturated calomel electrode
with detection limits down to 4 μM; good operational stability and storage stability were also obtained. 相似文献
A simple method to immobilize poly(neutral red) (PNR) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) hybrid film (PNR/FAD) by cyclic voltammetry is proposed. The PNR/FAD hybrid film can be easily prepared on an electrode surface involving electropolymerization of neutral red (NR) monomers and the electrostatic interaction between the positively charged PNR and the negatively charged FAD. It exhibits electroactive, stable, surface-confined, pH-dependent, nano-sized, and compatible properties. It provides good electrocatalytic properties to various species. It shows a sensitivity of 5.4 μA mM(-1) cm(-2) and 21.5 μA mM(-1) cm(-2) for hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) with the linear range of 0.1 μM-39 mM and 5 × 10(-5) to 2.5 × 10(-4) M, respectively. It shows another linear range of 48.8-355.5 mM with the sensitivity of 12.3 μA mM(-1) cm(-2) for H(2)O(2). In particular, the PNR/FAD hybrid film has potential to replace some hemoproteins to be a cathode of biofuel cells and provide the biosensing system for glucose and ethanol. 相似文献
Poly(Neutral Red) (PNR) has been electrogenerated on a passivated Ni surface. PNR was chosen due to the fact that its electroactivity region overlaps with the Ni dissolution/deposition process. Therefore, both electrochemical processes can compete and by this way, there are evidences about the formation of a Ni(OH)2/PNR composite. It was investigated by classical EQCM and the instantaneous mass/charge ratio (F(dm/dQ)) analysis shed light on the active/passive transition and nickel trans-passive dissolution mechanisms. 相似文献
The polymer redox mediator, poly(neutral red) (PNR), has been synthesised and characterised electrochemically to investigate
the best electropolymerisation and mediation conditions for application in enzyme biosensors and to clarify the mechanism
of action. Neutral red was electropolymerised by potential cycling on carbon film electrode substrates by allowing the monomer
to be oxidised during the full 20 cycles of polymerisation or reducing the positive limit of the potential window after the
first 2 cycles to impede monomer oxidation with a view to obtaining longer polymer chains and a lesser degree of branching.
Comparison was made with glassy carbon substrates. The PNR films on carbon film electrodes were characterised using cyclic
voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, as well as in glucose biosensors prepared with PNR. Glucose oxidase
enzyme was immobilised by encapsulation in silica sol-gel and compared with that obtained by cross-linking with glutaraldehyde.
The biosensors were evaluated by chronoamperometry in 0.1 M phosphate buffer saline solution, pH 7.0, and showed evidence
of electron transfer between the enzyme cofactor flavin adenine dinucleotide and PNR dissolved in the enzyme layer competing
with PNR-mediated electrochemical degradation of H2O2 formed during the enzymatic process.
This paper is dedicated to Professor Dr. Algirdas Vaskelis on the occasion of his 70th birthday. 相似文献