Enzyme- and metal-free electrochemical sensor for highly sensitive superoxide anion detection based on nitrogen doped hollow mesoporous carbon spheres

Li Liu, Hongli Zhao*, Libo Shi, Minbo Lan, Hongwei Zhang, Chengzhong Yu

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Abstract

In this work, a highly sensitive enzyme- and metal-free electrochemical method for superoxide anion (O2[rad]) detection has been developed by employing screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCE) modified by nitrogen doped hollow mesoporous carbon spheres (N-HMCS). For comparison, solid carbon spheres (SCS) and hollow mesoporous carbon spheres (HMCS) were also synthesized to fabricate the modified SPCE. Compared with SCS/SPCE and HMCS/SPCE, N-HMCS/SPCE displayed a higher electrochemical performance. When applied for electrochemical detection of O2[rad], N-HMCS/SPCE exhibited a high sensitivity of 1.49 μA cm−2 μM−1, better than SCS/SPCE and HMCS/SPCE and many of enzyme- or metal-based superoxide anion sensors. N-HMCS is expected to become a new generation of sensing materials for electrochemical analysis of O2[rad].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)69-76
Number of pages8
JournalElectrochimica Acta
Volume227
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Nitrogen doped hollow mesoporous carbon spheres
  • electrochemical sensor
  • highly sensitive
  • superoxide anion

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