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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 591, Issue -, Pages 384-395Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.02.023
Keywords
Self-supported electrodes; Electroless plating; Electrodeposition; Ni nanotubes; Layered double hydroxides; Glucose sensors
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- MHESR (Egypt)
- DAAD (Germany)
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A novel catalyst design based on integrated nickel nanotube networks loaded with NiCo-LDH nanosheets is presented in this study, showing excellent performance in glucose sensing. The catalysts exhibit high sensitivity, low detection limit, fast response time, high selectivity and stability, covering two linear ranges up to 2.5 mM analyte.
Nickel cobalt layered double hydroxide (NiCo-LDH)-based materials have recently emerged as catalysts for important electrochemical applications. However, they frequently suffer from low electrical conductivity and agglomeration, which in turn impairs their performance. Herein, we present a catalyst design based on integrated, self-supported nickel nanotube networks (Ni-NTNWs) loaded with NiCo-LDH nanosheets, which represents a binder-free, hierarchically nanostructured electrode architecture combining continuous conduction paths and openly accessible macropores of low tortuosity with an ultrahigh density of active sites. Similar to macroscale metallic foams, the NTNWs serve as three dimensionally interconnected, robust frameworks for the deposition of active material, but are structured in the submicron range. Our synthesis is solely based on scalable approaches, namely templating with commercial track-etched membranes, electroless plating, and electrodeposition. Morphological and compositional characterization proved the successful decoration of the inner and outer nanotube surfaces with a conformal NiCo-LDH layer. Ni-NTNW electrodes and hydroxide-decorated variants showed excellent performance in glucose sensing. The highest activity was achieved for the catalyst augmented with NiCo-LDH nanosheets, which surpassed the modification with pure Ni(OH)(2). Despite its low thickness of 20 mu m, the optimized catalyst layer provided an outstanding sensitivity of 4.6 mA mM(-1) cm(-2), a low detection limit of 0.2 mu M, a fast response time of 5.3 s, high selectivity and stability, and two linear ranges covering four orders of magnitude, up to 2.5 mM analyte. As such, derivatized interconnected metal nano-networks represent a promising design paradigm for highly miniaturized yet effective catalyst electrodes and electrochemical sensors. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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