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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 93, Issue 6, Pages 3295-3300Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05342
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21427808]
- Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University [ZY202006]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- Shenzhen Science Technology and Innovation Commission [R-IND12302]
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This study introduces a nanoparticle-based redox mediator, Tri-Ag-NPTSC, which demonstrates efficient oxidative process. The TSC of Tri-Ag-NPs can be selectively replaced by thiols to enable determination of various thiols at a much lower oxidative potential. This work proposes a surface-engineering approach to design and develop electrochemical redox probes using Ag nanoparticles with a particular morphology.
Redox mediators can facilitate the electrochemical communication between targets and electrodes for material characterization and investigation. To provide an alternative to the chemical-based redox mediators, herein, we present a nanoparticle-based redox mediator, i.e., the trisodium citrates (TSC)-capped triangular silver nanoplates (Tri-Ag-NPTSC), which demonstrates an efficient oxidative process at around 0.13 V (vs Ag/AgCl) with acceptable redox reversibility by exploiting the interaction between the carbonyl group of TSC and the Ag element of Tri-Ag-NPTSC. The TSC of Tri-Ag-NPs can be selectively replaced by thiols and enable the obtained Tri-Ag-NPTSC-thol with changed electrochemical redox response, which could be utilized to determine various thiols at 0.13 V, a much lowered oxidative potential than traditional redox mediators, with a similar linear response range, response slope, and limit of detection (LOD). This work proposes a surface-engineering approach to design and develop electrochemical redox probes using Ag nanoparticles with particular morphology, indicating that the interaction between the carbonyl group and Ag nanoparticles might be extended to sensing application beyond the surface-enhanced Raman scattering.
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