Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 177, Issue -, Pages 412-418Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.11.033
Keywords
Graphene oxide; Mesoporous MnO2; Hydroquinone; Catechol; Electrochemical sensor; Simultaneous determination
Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [61201091]
- Project of Science and Technology development of Henan Province [0124020221]
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A new facile preparation method of graphene oxide-mesoporous MnO2 (GO-MnO2) nanocomplex was developed here. The GO-MnO2 was used as a new electrode material for the fabrication of voltammetric sensor for sensitive simultaneous determination of hydroquinone (HQ) and catechol (CC), which exhibited significantly decreased peak-to-peak separations of ca. 34 and 36 mV for HQ and CC, respectively between oxidation and reduction waves in cyclic voltammetry. In differential pulse voltammetric measurements, the GO-MnO2 based sensor could separate the oxidation peak potentials of HQ and CC by about 115 mV though the bare electrode gave a single broad response, which was related to the higher surface area and catalytic ability of GO-MnO2. The oxidation peak current of HQ was linear over the range from 0.01 to 0.7 mu M in the presence of 0.1 mu M CC, and the oxidation peak current of CC was linear over the range from 0.03 to 1.0 mu M in the presence of 0.13 mu M HQ. The detection limits (S/N = 3) for HQ and CC were 7.0 and 10.0 nM, respectively. The proposed sensor was successfully applied to the simultaneous determination of HQ and CC in artificial wastewater samples. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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