Sensitive electrochemical detection of dopamine with a DNAgraphene
Sensitive electrochemical detection of dopamine with a DNA/graphene
bi-layer modi?ed carbon ionic liquid electrode
Xiaofeng Wang a,Zheng You a,Hailiang Sha b,Yong Cheng c,Huanhuan Zhu c,Wei Sun c,n
a Department of Precision Instrument,Tsinghua University,Beijing100084,PR China
b Department of Orthodontics,Beijing Stomatological Hospital,Beijing100050,PR China
c College of Chemistry an
d Molecular Engineering,Qingdao University of Scienc
e and Technology,Qingdao266042,PR China
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received27November2013
Received in revised form
22April2014
Accepted29April2014
Available online9May2014
Keywords:
Carbon ionic liquid electrode
Grapheme
dsDNA
Differential pulse voltammetry
Dopamine
a b s t r a c t
A DNA and graphene(GR)bi-layer modi?ed carbon ionic liquid electrode(CILE)was fabricated by an
electrodeposition method.GR nanosheets were electrodeposited on the surface of CILE at the potential
ofà1.3V and then DNA was further deposited at the potential oft0.5V on GR modi?ed CILE.
Electrochemical performances of the fabricated DNA/GR/CILE were carefully investigated.Then electro-
chemical behaviors of dopamine(DA)on the modi?ed electrode were studied with the calculated
electrochemical parameters.Under the optimized conditions,a linear relationship between the
oxidation peak current and the concentration of DA was obtained in the range from0.1μmol/L to
1.0mmol/L with a detection limit of0.027μmol/L(3s).The modi?ed electrode exhibited excellent
reproducibility,repeatability,stability,validation and robustness for the electrochemical detection of DA.
The proposed method was further applied to the DA injection solution and human urine samples
determination with satisfactory results.
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1.Introduction
As one of the most signi?cant catecholamines that belong to
the family of excitatory chemical neurotransmitters[1],dopamine
(DA)plays important roles in the central nervous,cardiovascular,
renal and hormonal systems,as well as in drug addiction and
Parkinson's disease[2].So the sensitive detection of DA concen-
tration is important for not only clinical diagnostics but also for
pathological research.Because DA is an electroactive compound
that can be easily oxidized on the electrode,electroanalysis of DA
based on its electro-oxidation had been widely reported,which
exhibits the advantages such as simplicity,high speed and sensi-
tivity with low cost equipments.However,electrochemical deter-
mination of DA is usually affected by the oxidation of ascorbic acid
(AA),which is often coexisted with DA in the biological samples
and exhibits the similar oxidation potential.So the separation of
electrochemical responses of DA and AA has been widely investi-
gated by different kinds of chemically modi?ed electrodes.Various
modi?ers have been used for the electrode modi?cation and DA
detection with increased sensitivity.For example,Jiang et al.applied
DNA modi?ed carbon?ber microelectrodes for DA detection with
excellent anti-interference characteristics[3].Kim et https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,ed a
spontaneous formation of electrocatalytic poly(dopamine)-?lms on
bare indium-tin oxide(ITO)electrode for the detection of DA[4].
Sabino et al.applied a laponite/tyrosinase modi?ed glassy carbon
electrode to determine DA[5].Bui et https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,ed poly(glutamic acid)
patterned single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes for the selec-
tive detection of DA[6].Zhu et https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,ed a Ni/Al layered double
hydroxide modi?ed electrode for the determination of DA[7].
DNA is one of the most important biomacromolecules that is
widely investigated in the?eld of electrochemistry and electro-
chemical sensors,which can not only be used as recognition
element in electrochemical DNA sensor,but also exhibit ef?cient
electroconductivity along the long chain[8].Due to the rich
p-electron of base-stacking along its double helical backbone,
DNA can also be used for the sensing of bioactive species[9].
The interaction of catecholamines with DNA had also been
observed,which could provide a novel way for the fabrication of
neurotransmitter biosensors.Electrochemical sensors based on DNA
recognition for DA,norepinephrine,uric acid in the presence of AA
had been reported[10,11].The presence of DNA?lm on the
electrode can result in a conductive thin?lm with nano-structures
and enhance the surface area of electrode,which can be used for the
further construction of ef?cient biosensors[12,13].
Recently,graphene(GR)has attracted intensive research inter-
ests because of its extremely high thermal conductivity,good
mechanical strength,high mobility of charge carriers,big speci?c
surface area and upstanding electrical properties[14–16].Because
of its nanosheet structure,molecular interaction and thus electron
transport through GR can be highly sensitive to the adsorbed
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molecules.Electrochemical applications of GR and its related composite have been reviewed in recent years[17,18].Different modi?cation procedures have been proposed for the fabrication of GR modi?ed electrodes,which exhibit great potential for distin-guishing various electroactive substances.Recently,electrochemi-cal reduction of graphene oxide(GO)to GR has drawn considerable attention due to its fast speed and green nature [19,20].Gao et al.directly deposited GO on the electrodes surface by electrochemical reduction and further applied the modi?ed electrode to the rutin detection[21].
In this paper a carbon ionic liquid electrode(CILE)was fabricated by using N-hexylpyridinium hexa?uorophosphate(HPPF6)as the modi?er,which had been reported as a working electrode with better performance[22].CILE is prepared by incorporating ionic liquid(IL)as the binder and the modi?er in the traditional carbon paste electrode(CPE),which has the advantages such as easy preparation,good reversibility,high sensitivity and the ability to lower the overpotential of electroactive compounds[23].CILE can also be further decorated to get the modi?ed electrode.Different kinds of the modi?ed CILE had been prepared and used for electrochemical sensing with excellent performance[24–26].By using CILE as the substrate electrode,GR was electrodeposited on its surface by direct electroreduction from GO solution,then a con-trollable thin DNA?lm was further deposited on GR surface to get a DNA and GR bilayer modi?ed electrode(DNA/GR/CILE).The pre-sence of GR on the electrode can increase the surface area and the interfacial conductivity.With the further modi?cation of DNA on the electrode,the interaction between electroactive DA and DNA could take place on the electrode surface,which could be further used for the DA recognition and detection.Electrochemical beha-viors of DA on DNA/GR/CILE were carefully investigated with the electrochemical process discussed and electrochemical parameters https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,pared with other reported results for electrochem-istry of DA,the presence of DNA and GR on the CILE surface can largely enhance the electron transfer rate with accumulation effect. Under the optimal conditions a new electroanalytical method for the detection of DA was furthur established and applied to the DA injection samples detection.
2.Experimental
2.1.Apparatus and chemicals
Electrochemical experiments including potentiostatic reduc-tion,cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectro-scopy(EIS)were executed on a CHI750B electrochemical workstation(Shanghai CH Instrument,Shanghai,China).A con-ventional three-electrode system was used with a DNA/GR/CILE as a working electrode,a platinum wire as an auxiliary electrode and a saturated calomel electrode(SCE)as a reference electrode.All the electrochemical experiments were conducted at the room temperature(20721C).Scanning electron microscopy(SEM) was obtained by a JSM-7500F scanning electron microscope(Japan Electron Company,Tokyo,Japan).
N-hexylpyridinium hexa?uorophosphate(HPPF6,499%,Lanz-
hou Greenchem.ILS.LICP.CAS.,Lanzhou,China),dopamine(DA,
Aladdin Reagent Co.Ltd.,Shanghai,China),graphite powder
(average particle size30μm,Shanghai Colloid Chemical Co.Ltd., Shanghai,China)and double stranded DNA(dsDNA,Sigma-Aldrich
Co.,Shanghai,China)were used as received.Graphene oxide(GO)
was synthesized by the modi?ed Hummer's method[27].0.1mol/L
phosphate buffer solution(PBS)with various pH values was used as
the supporting electrolyte.All the other chemicals used were of
analytical reagent grade and doubly distilled water was used in the
experiments.
2.2.Preparation of the modi?ed electrode
CILE was fabricated based on the reported procedure[22].Prior
to use,a mirror-like surface can be obtained by polishing the
electrode on a weighing paper.GR modi?ed CILE was prepared by
the electrochemical reduction with a potentiostatic method[21].
In brief,a freshly prepared CILE was placed in a1.0mg/mL GO
dispersion solution with magnetic stirring and N2bubbling.By
applying at the potential ofà1.3V for300s,a stable electro-
chemical reduced GR?lm could be formed on the CILE surface.The
resulted electrode was denoted as GR/CILE,which was rinsed with
doubly distilled water and dried in nitrogen atmosphere for the
further modi?cation.Then DNA modi?ed electrode was prepared
by immersing GR/CILE into a0.1mg/L dsDNA solution(in0.05M
pH7.0PBS)and electrodeposition was carried out at the potential
oft0.5V for1200s.The resulting electrode was denoted as DNA/
GR/CILE and other modi?ed electrodes such as DNA/CILE,GR/CILE
etc.were prepared by similar procedure for comparison.
2.3.Electrochemical procedure
All the cyclic voltammetric experiments were carried out in PBS
containing certain concentration of DA at the scan rate of100mV/s.
Differential pulse voltammograms(DPV)were recorded in the
potential range from0.6toà0.2V with instrumental parameters
set as:pulse amplitude0.005V,pulse width0.05s,pulse period
0.2s and quiet time2s.
3.Results and discussion
3.1.Characteristics of the modi?ed electrodes
SEM was used to characterize the top views of different
modi?ed electrodes and the results are shown in Fig.1.On the
surface of CILE the layer of irregularly micrometer-sized graphite
appeared(Fig.1A),which was connected by IL with high viscosity.
Fig.1B shows the SEM image of GR nanosheets modi?ed CILE.The
typical lamellar structure of GR could be observed,which was
highly bene?cial in maintaining a large electrode surface area.
Electrochemical reduction of GO is a convenient method for the
preparation of GR with high ef?cient,simple,fast and green nature
[19].The large surface area of GR is helpful in increasing the
sites
Fig.1.SEM images of(A)CILE,(B)GR/CILE and(C)DNA/GR/CILE.
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for the electrodeposition of the second DNA layer.The SEM image
of DNA/GR/CILE was further recorded and shown in Fig.1C,which
exhibited many well-separated nanosized particles.Due to the
presence of GR on the electrode,more DNA could be deposited on
the surface of GR/CILE.
Cyclic voltammograms of different modi?ed electrodes in a
1.0mmol/L[Fe(CN)6]3à/4àsolution were further recorded at the
scan rate of100mV/s with the results shown in Fig.2A.A pair of
well-de?ned redox peaks could be observed on CILE with the
peak-to-peak separation(ΔE p)as108mV(curve b),indicating the high conductivity of CILE.While the redox peak currents of DNA/
CILE decreased with theΔE p value increased to187mV(curve a), demonstrating that DNA had been immobilized on the surface of CILE.The negative charged phosphate skeletons of DNA on CILE surface exhibited a repulse force to the negatively charged[Fe (CN)6]3à/4à,which resulted in the decrease of the redox peak currents and the increase ofΔE p value.On GR/CILE both redox peak currents increased obviously withΔE p value as91mV(curve d),which was due to the presence of electroreduced GR?lm on the electrode surface.GR has been elucidated with extremely high mobility of charge carriers,big speci?c surface area and excellent conductivity,which can greatly improve the electron transfer kinetics[28].The redox peak currents on DNA/GR/CILE(curve c) were decreased again,which indicated the successful immobiliza-tion of DNA on the surface of GR/CILE.The negatively charged phosphate skeletons of DNA immobilized on the electrode surface had a repulsive force to[Fe(CN)6]3à/4àanion,and therefore the current response of[Fe(CN)6]3à/4àat DNA/GR/CILE was smaller than that of GR/CILE.All these results indicated the successful immobilization of DNA on the modi?ed electrode.
Electrochemical impedance spectrum(EIS)can provide infor-
mation on the electrode surface during the modi?cation process,
which is further used to probe the interface of the modi?ed
electrode.By using10.0mmol/L[Fe(CN)6]3à/4àsolution as the
electrochemical probe,the Nyquist plots of different modi?ed
electrodes were recorded with the results shown in Fig.2B.In
EIS the semicircular part at higher frequencies corresponds to the
electron transfer limited process and the linear part at lower
frequencies corresponds to the diffusion process.The value of
electron transfer resistance(Ret)is estimated according to the
diameter of the semicircle of the Nyquist plots at the high
frequency region,which controls the electron transfer kinetics of
redox probe at the electrode surface and re?ects the interfacial
electron transfer ability.Here Z0and Z00are the real variable and
the negative value of the imaginary variable of impedance.The Ret
value of bare CILE was106.4Ω(curve b).While on DNA/CILE the Ret value was increased to140.1Ω(curve a),indicating that the presence of DNA molecules with negatively charged phosphate skeletons on the surface of CILE increased the interfacial resis-tance.On GR/CILE the Ret value was decreased to50.7Ω(curve d), which was due to the presence of good conductive GR?lm on CILE. While on DNA/GR/CILE the Ret value was increased to76.4Ω(curve c),which was bigger than that of GR/CILE,indicating the successful immobilization of DNA on the GR surface.
3.2.Electrochemical behaviors of DA
Cyclic voltammograms of 1.0?10à4mol/L DA on different modi?ed electrodes were recorded with the results shown in Fig.3.It can be seen that on all the modi?ed electrodes a pair of well-de?ned redox peaks appeared,which was the typical elec-trochemical response of DA.Electrochemical data of DA on different modi?ed electrodes were summarized and listed in Table1.It can be seen that DA exhibited a draw out cyclic voltammetric curves with smallest redox peak currents and biggest peak-to-peak separation(ΔE p)on CILE(curve a),indicating a quasi-reversible electrode process.While the redox peak currents increased with the decrease ofΔE p value to235mV on GR/CILE,which could be attributed to the presence of
high
Fig.2.(A)Cyclic voltammograms of different modi?ed electrodes in1.0mmol/L K3[Fe(CN)6]and0.5mol/L KCl with scan rate as100mV/s.(B)Electrochemical impedance spectra of different modi?ed electrodes in10.0mmol/L[Fe(CN)6]3à/4àcontaining0.1mol/L KCl with the frequently from105to0.1Hz.The electrodes from(a)to(d)were DNA/CILE,CILE,DNA/GR/CILE and GR/CILE,
respectively.
Fig.3.Cyclic voltammograms of(a)CILE,(b)DNA/CILE,(c)GR/CILE and(d)DNA/GR/
CILE in pH6.5PBS containing1.0?10à4mol/L DA with the scan rate as100mV/s.
Table1
Electrochemical data of1.0?10à4mol/L DA on different modi?ed electrodes.
Electrode I pc(μA)I pa(μA)E pc(V)E pa(V)ΔE p(V)I pa/I pc
CILE7.3010.370.0720.3660.294 1.56
GR/CILE13.3315.840.0870.3220.235 1.18
DNA/CILE12.7214.510.1390.2700.131 1.14
DNA/GR/CILE24.1326.140.1460.2480.102 1.08
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conductive GR on CILE surface.Due to the speci?c electrochemical
properties of GR with high surface area and good conductivity,
electrochemical responses of DA were enhanced on the GR
modi?ed electrode.On DNA/CILE the redox peak currents also
increased andΔE p value decreased to131mV(curve c),which could be ascribed to the accumulation effect of DA in the DNA
structure.DA is in positive charged at pH 6.5PBS due to its
isoelectronic point(pI)as8.9,which can interact with the
negatively charged DNA on the electrode surface.So the presence
of DNA on CILE exhibited the adsorption ability with the DA
concentration increased on the electrode surface.On DNA/GR/CILE
the biggest redox peak currents appeared with the smallestΔE p value as102mV(curve d).The values of redox peak currents were about2times larger than that of DNA/CILE and GR/CILE,which indicated that DNA/GR/CILE exhibited the best electrochemical performances for the DA detection.The results could be ascribed to the synergistic effects of GR and DNA on the modi?ed electrode, including the high conductivity of GR and the accumulation effect of DNA to the DA molecules.The high surface area of GR on the electrode can deposit more DNA molecules on its surface,then more DA molecules could be accumulated on DNA layer with a more conductive GR surface facilitating the electron transfer.So DNA and GR bilayer modi?ed electrode is a suitable platform for the electrochemical detection of DA with enhanced sensitivity.
3.3.Effect of buffer pH
The pH effects on the electrochemical responses of DA at DNA/GR/ CILE were examined in the pH range from5.0to8.0with the results shown in Fig.S1A.It can be seen that a pair of well-de?ned redox peak of DA appeared on cyclic voltammograms in the selected pH range. The redox peak potentials shifted to the negative direction with the increase of buffer pH,indicating that protons involved in the electro-chemical reaction.The linear relationship between the formal peak potential(E00)and pH was established with the equation as E00(V)?0.0511pHà0.512(γ?0.998)(as shown in Fig.S1B).The slope value of51.1mV/pH was close to the theoretical value of59mV/pH, indicated that the same amounts of electrons and protons took part in the electrode reaction.The relationship of the oxidation peak current versus buffer pH was also plotted with the results shown in Fig.S1C.The maximum value appeared at pH6.5,which was selected as optimal pH for the electrochemical detection in the following experiments,and this value was also proper to mimic the physiolo-gical environment.
3.4.In?uence of scan rate
The effect of scan rate on the redox peak currents of DA at DNA/ GR/CILE was also investigated with the typical cyclic voltammograms shown in Fig.S2.It can be seen that the redox peak currents increased gradually with the increase of scan rate in the range from 10.0to500.0mV/s along with the changes of the redox peak potentials(Fig.S2A),which was the typical characteristics of a quasi-reversible electrochemical process.As shown in Fig.S2B,the redox peak current(I p)exhibited a good linear relationship with the square root of scan rate(υ1/2).Two linear regression equations were got as I pc(μA)?73.98υ1/2(V/s)à5.57(γ?0.997)and I pa(μA)?
à54.78υ1/2(V/s)à0.194(γ?0.999),indicating a diffusional con-trolled electrochemical process.The redox peak potentials and lnυalso exhibited good linear relationship with the regression equations calculated as E pa(V)?0.0271lnυt0.340(γ?0.998)and E pc(V)?à0.0192lnυt0.101(γ?0.997)(shown in Fig.S2C).According to the following equations:
E pa?E00tm?0:78tlneD1=2k sà1Tà0:5ln m t
m
2
lnυ;m?
RT
e1àαTnF
e1TE pc?E00àm0?0:78tlneD1=2k sà1Tà0:5ln m0 à
m0
lnυ;m0?
RT
αnF
e2Tlog k s?αloge1àαTte1àαTlogαàlog RTυà
e1àαTαFΔE pe3T
The values of charge transfer coef?cient(α),electron transfer number(n)and electrode reaction standard rate constant(k s) were calculated as0.58,2.26and1.97sà1,respectively.
3.5.Analytical performance
In order to achieve the sensitive quantitative determination of low concentration DA,differential pulse voltammetry(DPV)was adopted with the typical voltammograms shown in Fig.4A.Under the optimum experimental conditions,the oxidation peak currents (I pa)had a good linear relationship with DA concentration in the range of0.1–1000.0μmol/L with two sections appeared.As shown in Fig.4B,the linear regression equations were obtained as I pa (μA)?1.667t0.156c(μmol/L)(γ?0.996)in the range from0.1to 200.0μmol/L and I pa(μA)?24.45t0.0405c(μmol/L)(γ?0.997)in the range from200.0to1000.0μmol/L.The detection limit was calculated as27.0nmol/L(3s).The analytical parameters of this electrode with other kinds of modi?ed electrodes for the DA detection are compared and listed in Table2.It can be seen that this method exhibited wider linear range and lower detection limit for DA detection.
The modi?ed electrode exhibited good repeatability and the relative standard deviation(RSD)of11successive detections for 1.0?10à4mol/L DA was 3.2%.Five modi?ed electrodes were fabricated independently with the same procedure,which gave
a
Fig.4.(A)Differential pulse voltammograms of various concentrations DA on DNA/GR/CILE(from(a)to(j):0.0,20.0,40.0,60.0,80.0,200.0,400.0,600.0,800.0,1000.0μmol/L).
(B)Linear relationships of the anodic peak current with DA concentration.
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satisfactory RSD value of2.7%for the detection of1.0?10à4mol/L
DA,indicating the good reproducibility of the electrode fabrica-
tion.The stability of the modi?ed electrode was investigated by
storing in a41C refrigerator for a certain time and furthur used for
the detection of1.0?10à4mol/L DA.The results indicated that
96.5%of the initial response remained after15days storage.
The validation of electroanalysis is the process for con?rming
the determination procedure for a speci?c target that is suitable
for its intended use like other analytical methods.The precision of
the detection was investigated based on the intra-day and inter-
day assessment with three concentrations(1ow,medium and high
within the linear range)and?ve replicates of each concentration.
The intra-day precision was based on the RSD value for the
detection of5.0,50.0and500.0μmol/L DA within the same day, which gave satisfactory results of2.3%,3.5%and2.9%.Also the
inter-day precision for the detection of5.0,50.0and500.0μmol/L DA gave the RSD value of3.7%,4.2%and3.1%,respectively.All results indicated that the modi?ed electrode exhibited excellent precision for the DA detection.The accuracy of the intra-day and inter-day detection was also investigated by the standard DA solution and the recovery was in the range from95.7%to104.2%, indicating the high accuracy of the proposed method.The robust-ness of this method was evaluated by investigation on the effects of small variations of the experimental conditions such as the buffer pH,temperature and scan rate on the recovery of DA,which gave the values in the range of96.5–98.1%.So this method had good robustness when the critical experimental conditions varied
slightly.
3.6.Interference
The in?uences of some coexisting substances such as inorganic
ions and organic compounds that commonly existed in biological
samples on the determination of1.0?10à4mol/L DA were inves-
tigated with the results listed in Table S1.It can be seen that most
of them did not interfere with the determination,indicating the
good selectivity of the modi?ed electrode.
Ascorbic acid(AA)is the main coexisting substance with DA in
biological samples,so the electrochemical responses of DA in the
presence of high concentration AA were studied with differential
pulse voltammograms shown in Fig.S3.It can be seen that the
oxidation peaks of AA and DA were overlapped together on CILE
with a broad oxidation peak appeared(curve a),which indicated
that selective determination of DA in the presence of AA was
impossible on CILE.While on DNA/GR/CILE two oxidation peaks
appeared at0.195V and0.048V(curve b),which corresponded to
the oxidation of DA and AA respectively.The separation between
these two oxidation peak potentials was calculated as147mV,
which was large enough for the simultaneously detection of DA
and AA in the mixture solution.
3.7.Samples determination
The proposed method was further applied to the determination
of DA injection samples,which were purchased from Jiangsu
Yabang Pharmacy Limited Company(100423)with the speci?ed
amount as10.0mg/mL.The samples were?rst diluted to10.0mL
with water and60.0μL of the diluted solution was detected by the experimental procedure.The recovery of the test was analyzed by
the standard addition method with the results summarized in
Table3.It can be seen that the results were satisfactory with the
recovery in the range of98.7–102.7%,indicating that the proposed
electrode could be ef?ciently used for the determination of DA in
the injection samples.
The proposed method was also used to direct analysis of DA in
human urine samples,which was diluted for300times with pH
6.5PBS before measurement.The results are also listed in Table3
and the recovery was in the range of98.2–104.5%with the RSD
value less than3%.So the proposed method can be potentially
used for the real samples detection.
4.Conclusion
In the present work a DNA and GR bilayer modi?ed CILE was
fabricated by electroreduction of GO to GR and electrodeposition
of DNA step-by-step on the electrode surface.The DNA/GR/CILE
exhibited excellent electrochemical performances due to the
synergistic effects of GR and DNA bilayer,including the accumula-
tion and interaction of DNA with DA,the high conductive and large
surface area of GR.Under the selected conditions,the anodic peak
current was proportional to the DA concentration in the range
from0.1μmol/L to1000.0μmol/L with the detection limit as 27.0nmol/L(3s).The DNA/GR/CILE showed good stability,high selectivity and excellent repeatability,which could be used for the sensitive detection of DA in the injection solution and human urine samples.Also this DNA/GR/CILE has the potential application in the electrochemical detection of other electroactive substances due to its excellent electrochemical properties.
Table2
Comparison of the analytical parameters of DA on different modi?ed electrodes.
Modi?ed electrode Linear range
(μmol/L)Detection limit
(μmol/L)
References
DNA/PPyox/CFE a0.3–10.00.08[3]
ITO electrode b/0.001[4]
GCE 4.5–400.0 2.3[5]
LDH/CILE c10–1100 5.0[7]
DNA/Pp-ABSA/GCE d0.19–130.088[10]
Qu/GH/GCE e0.03–400.00.01[29]
RGO-Pd-NPs/GCE f1–150.00.233[30]
TCPP/CCG/GCE g0.1–1.00.022[31] {AuNPs/RGO}20/GCE h1–600.02[32]
DNA/GR/CILE0.1–1000.00.027This work
a DNA-overoxidized polypyrrole biocomposite layer modi?ed carbon?ber electrode.
b Indum tin oxide electrode.
c Ni/Al layere
d doubl
e hydroxide modi?ed carbon ionic liquid electrode.
d DNA/poly(p-aminobenzensulfonic acid)modi?ed glassy carbon electrode.
e Quercetin-graphene composite modi?ed glassy carbon electrode.
f Reduced graphene oxide and palladium nanoparticles modi?ed glassy carbon electrode.
g Meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphine/chemically reduced graphene mod-i?ed glassy carbon electrode.
h Reduced graphene oxide/gold nanoparticles modi?ed glassy carbon elec-trode.
Table3
Determination of DA content in the injection and human urine samples(n?6).
Sample Number Speci?ed
(μmol/L)Detected
(μmol/L)
Added
(μmol/L)
Total
(μmol/L)
RSD
(%)
Recovery
(%)
Injection163.2863.1220.083.01 1.8299.4 263.2863.7140.0104.77 1.90102.7
363.2863.5660.0122.79 2.1198.7
Human
urine 1// 2.0 2.09 1.42104.5
2// 4.0 4.14 2.15103.5
3// 6.0 5.89 2.7398.2
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Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the?nancial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.30901700and50905096). Appendix A.Supporting information
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Electrochemical supercapacitors for energy storage and delivery
Editorial Electrochemical supercapacitors for energy storage and delivery:Advanced materials,technologies and applications q 1.Introduction In the effort to achieve a clean and sustainable world,energy storage and delivery have become one of today’s most important topics in globe research and development.In this regard,electro-chemical energy technologies such as batteries,fuel cells,and elec-trochemical supercapacitors have been recognized as the most important portion of the various energy storage and delivery tech-nologies.Among these technologies,supercapacitors,emerging as one of the most important energy storage and delivery devices for the 21st century,are particularly the most reliable and safe devices with extremely high power density and cycling stability in many applications including portable electronics,automobile vehicles,stationary power stations and energy storage devices,backup power supplies,etc.However,its challenges of low energy density as well as this low energy density induced high cost are the major drawbacks.To overcome these challenges,in recent years,there are tremendous efforts focusing on the development of new and cost-effective electrodes and electrolyte materials as well as electrode con?guration to improve the capacitance,the energy density of the next generation of supercapacitors. In order to benchmark the state of research in this area at this time,Applied Energy organized a special issue dedicated to recent research development in Supercapacitors.The articles in this spe-cial issue cover the most recent progress of supercapacitor research and development in terms of both fundamentals and applications with focuses on cutting edge research on new materi-als for system designs and practical deployment investigations.2.Background of supercapacitors Normally,the energy storage mechanism of supercapacitors is electrochemical in nature,but differs from that of batteries or fuel cells that rely on the coupling of Faradaic redox reactions.Instead,supercapacitors store and discharge energy dominantly through what is called electric double layer capacitance (EDLC).This occurs by employing two high surface area electrodes,that when charged,form a Helmholtz double layer at the interface between the con-ductive electrode materials and the electrolyte,as illustrated in Fig.1.The electrodes have opposing charges,and in this fashion energy is stored by the electrostatic charge separation.As a result of this energy storage mechanism,supercapacitors can charge and discharge in a matter of seconds while delivering immense power densities (typically in the 10–1000KW/kg).Their operational life-times are also an attractive feature,boasting in excess of 100,000charge and discharge cycles before needing replacement (ref).Owing to these advanced properties,supercapacitors have gained commercial success in certain applications that include dynamic load levelling and uninterruptable power supplies.However,due to their low energy density,large untapped markets remain,including the use of supercapacitors in electric vehicles,large scale energy storage units (grid),and small scale portable electronics.For supercapacitors to effectively penetrate these markets,further technological advances,such as those reported in this special issue are required. At the current state of research,a large body of research has been focused on increasing the energy density of supercapacitors by developing novel high surface area carbon materials,such as graphene,with unprecedented electric double layer capacitance.It is expected that the viability of supercapacitors could also be extended towards a wide range of applications if energy densities can be improved to more closely resemble those of batteries.To accomplish this,psuedocapacitors (or hybrid supercapacitors)are an emerging trend of research that includes compositing conven-tional EDLC electrodes with materials that contribute redox beha-viour during charge and discharge.These materials,with a high capacity to store energy must also be integrated into operational supercapacitor cell designs.These systems may then have their performance investigated and validated towards new,promising applications. 3.Research covered in this special issue In this special issue,13papers have been included covering the areas of electric double layer capacitance materials,psuedocapac-itor material,system design and application deployment.3.1.New high surface area EDLC materials Developing novel nano-structured electrode materials are one of the most active approaches in supercapacitors.For example,Article [1]reports the use of rice husks,a renewable resource,to prepare high surface area porous carbons that were used as EDLC https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.05.0540306-2619/ó2015Published by Elsevier Ltd. q This paper is included in the Special Issue of Electrochemical Supercapacitors for Energy Storage and Conversion,Advanced Materials,Technologies and Applications edited by Dr.Jiujun Zhang,Dr.Lei Zhang,Dr.Radenka Maric,Dr.Zhongwei Chen,Dr.Aiping Yu and Prof.Yan.
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The buzzword‘‘nanotechnology’’is now around us everywhere.Nanotechnology has recently become one of the most exciting forefront fields in analytical chemistry.Nanotechnology is defined as the creation of functional materials, devices and systems through control of matter at the1–100nm scale.A wide variety of nanoscale materials of differ-ent sizes,shapes and compositions are now available.1The huge interest in nanomaterials is driven by their many desirable properties.In particular,the ability to tailor the size and structure and hence the properties of nanomaterials offers excellent prospects for designing novel sensing systems and enhancing the performance of the bioanalytical assay. The goal of this article is to highlight recent advances in nanomaterials for such electrical sensing devices. 2.Nanoparticles,nanowires and nanotubes Research efforts on metal and metal semiconductor nanoparticles have flour-ished in recent years.2,3Metal nano-particles are generally defined as isolable particles between1and50nm in size,that are prevented from agglo-merating by protecting shells.Owing to their small size such nanoparticles have physical,electronic and chemical proper-ties that are different from those of bulk metals.Such properties strongly depend on the number and kind of atoms that make up the particle.Several reviews have addressed the synthesis and proper- ties of nanoparticles.2,3Typically,such particles are prepared by chemical reduc- tion of the corresponding transition metal salts in the presence of a stabilizer (capping agent such as citrate or thiol) which binds to their surface to impart high stability and rich linking chemistry and provide the desired charge and solubility properties.Designer particles, including colloidal gold or inorganic nanocrystals have found broad applica- tions in many forms of biological tagging schemes.For example,colloidal quan- tum dots have been widely used for optical bioassays because their light emitting properties can be broadly tuned through size variation.4Recent years have witnessed the development of powerful electrochemical bioassays based on nanoparticle labels and ampli- fication platforms. One-dimensional(1-D)nanostruc- tures,such as carbon nanotubes(CNT) and semiconductor-or conducting- polymer nanowires,are particularly attractive for bioelectronic detection. Because of the high surface-to-volume ratio and novel electron transport pro- perties of these nanostructures,their elec- tronic conductance is strongly influenced by minor surface perturbations(such as those associated with the binding of macromolecules).Such1-D materials thus offer the prospect of rapid(real- time)and sensitive label-free bioelectro- nic detection,and massive redundancy in nanosensor arrays.The extreme smallness of these nanomaterials would allow packing a huge number of sensing elements onto a small footprint of an array device.Metal and conducting polymer nanowires can be readily prepared by a template-directed electro- chemical synthesis involving electro- deposition into the pores of a membrane template.5Carbon nanotubes (CNT)are particularly exciting1-D nanomaterials that have generated a considerable interest owing to their unique structure-dependent electronic and mechanical properties.6CNT can be divided into single-wall carbon- nanotubes(SWCNT)and multi-wall carbon-nanotubes(MWCNT).SWCNT possess a cylindrical nanostructure (with a high aspect ratio),formed by rolling up a single graphite sheet into a tube.SWCNT can thus be viewed as molecular wires with every atom on the surface.MWCNT comprise of an array of such nanotubes that are concentrically nested like rings of a tree trunk.The remarkable properties of CNT suggest the possibility of developing superior electrochemical sensing devices,ranging from amperometric enzyme electrodes to label-free DNA hybridization bio- sensors.7The tailored electronic con- ductivity of conducting polymers, coupled with their ease of processing/ modification and rich chemistry,make them extremely attractive as1-D sensing materials.Newly introduced CNT/ conducting-polymer nanowire mate- rials,8based on incorporating oxidized CNT as the charge-balancing dopants i-SECTION:HIGHLIGHT https://www.360docs.net/doc/6716389325.html,/analyst|The Analyst
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