Journal
PROCESSES
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr10040723
Keywords
screen-printed electrodes; biosensors; electrochemistry; cyclic voltammetry; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
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Funding
- TGE-PLAT [77/08.09.2016, P_40_283, C77.9D]
- MySMIS [105623]
- DDS DIAGNOSTIC
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This study evaluates the cleaning efficiency of different chemical compounds and cleaning methods for screen-printed electrodes, and concludes that the best cleaning method is using a solution of H2O2 and multiple cyclic voltammetry with a low scanning speed.
Screen-printed electrodes-based sensors can be successfully used to determine all kinds of analytes with great precision and specificity. However, obtaining a high-quality sensor can be difficult due to factors such as lack of reproducibility, surface contamination or other manufacturing challenges. An important step in ensuring reproducible results is the cleaning step. The aim of the current work is to help researchers around the world who struggle with finding the most suitable method for cleaning screen-printed electrodes. We evaluated the cleaning efficiency of different chemical compounds and cleaning methods using cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The percentage differences in polarization resistance (R-p) before and after cleaning were as follows: acetone-35.33% for gold and 49.94 for platinum; ethanol-44.50% for gold and 81.68% for platinum; H2O2-47.34% for gold and 92.78% for platinum; electrochemical method-3.70% for gold and 67.96% for platinum. Thus, we concluded that all the evaluated cleaning methods seem to improve the surface of both gold and platinum electrodes; however, the most important reduction in the polarization resistance (R-p) was obtained after treating them with a solution of H2O2 and multiple CV cycles with a low scanning speed (10 mV/s).
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