TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel amperometric nitrite sensor based on screen printed carbon electrode modified with graphite/β-cyclodextrin composite
AU - Palanisamy, Selvakumar
AU - Thirumalraj, Balamurugan
AU - Chen, Shen Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by the (Republic of China) Ministry of Science and Technology (project no. NSC1012113M027001MY3), Taiwan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - A simple and disposable amperometric nitrite sensor was developed based on screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE) modified with graphite (GR) and β-cyclodextrin (CD) composite. The GR/CD composite was prepared by a simple sonication of pristine GR powder in CD aqueous solution. The GR/CD composite modified SPCE showed a higher electrocatalytic activity towards nitrite with lower overpotential (0.81 V) compared with bare, GR and CD modified SPCEs. The edge planes of GR were highly activated in presence of CD and resulting to the high catalytic activity and lower oxidation overpotential for the detection of nitrite. Under optimum conditions, the fabricated GR/CD composite modified SPCE detects the nitrite in the linear concentration range from 0.7 μM to 2.15 mM with a limit of detection of 0.26 ± 0.01 μM. The GR/CD composite modified SPCE also showed a high sensitivity, selectivity, acceptable repeatability and reproducibility along with appropriate operational stability for the detection of nitrite. In addition, the GR/CD composite modified SPCE showed a satisfactory recovery for the detection of nitrite in different water samples, authenticating an excellent practicality of the sensor.
AB - A simple and disposable amperometric nitrite sensor was developed based on screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE) modified with graphite (GR) and β-cyclodextrin (CD) composite. The GR/CD composite was prepared by a simple sonication of pristine GR powder in CD aqueous solution. The GR/CD composite modified SPCE showed a higher electrocatalytic activity towards nitrite with lower overpotential (0.81 V) compared with bare, GR and CD modified SPCEs. The edge planes of GR were highly activated in presence of CD and resulting to the high catalytic activity and lower oxidation overpotential for the detection of nitrite. Under optimum conditions, the fabricated GR/CD composite modified SPCE detects the nitrite in the linear concentration range from 0.7 μM to 2.15 mM with a limit of detection of 0.26 ± 0.01 μM. The GR/CD composite modified SPCE also showed a high sensitivity, selectivity, acceptable repeatability and reproducibility along with appropriate operational stability for the detection of nitrite. In addition, the GR/CD composite modified SPCE showed a satisfactory recovery for the detection of nitrite in different water samples, authenticating an excellent practicality of the sensor.
KW - Amperometry
KW - Electrochemical sensor
KW - Graphite and β-cyclodextrin composite
KW - Nitrite
KW - Screen printed carbon electrode
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.11.017
DO - 10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.11.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951010830
SN - 1572-6657
VL - 760
SP - 97
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
JF - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
ER -