Journal
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 797, Issue -, Pages 30-39Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2013.08.018
Keywords
Amorphous carbon nitride electrode; Boron-doped diamond electrode; Anodic pretreatment; Square-wave voltammetry; EIS; XPS
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- FAPESP [Proc. 2011/00601-9]
- CNPq
- CAPES
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Boron-doped diamond (BDD) films are excellent electrode materials, whose electrochemical activity for some analytes can be tuned by controlling their surface termination, most commonly either to predominantly hydrogen or oxygen. This tuning can be accomplished by e.g. suitable cathodic or anodic electrochemical pretreatments. Recently, it has been shown that amorphous carbon nitride (a-CNx) films may present electrochemical characteristics similar to those of BDD, including the influence of surface termination on their electrochemical activity toward some analytes. In this work, we report for the first time a complete electroanalytical method using an a-CNx electrode. Thus, an a-CNx film deposited on a stainless steel foil by DC magnetron sputtering is proposed as an alternative electrode for the simultaneous determination of dopamine (DA) and ascorbic acid (AA) in synthetic biological samples by square-wave voltammetry. The obtained results are compared with those attained using a BDD electrode. For both electrodes, a same anodic pretreatment in 0.1 mol L-1 KOH was necessary to attain an adequate and equivalent separation of the DA and AA oxidation potential peaks of about 330 mV. The detection limits obtained for the simultaneous determination of these analytes using the a-CNx electrode were 0.0656 mu mol L-1 for DA and 1.05 mu mol L-1 for AA, whereas with the BDD electrode these values were 0.283 mu mol L-1 and 0.968 mu mol L-1, respectively. Furthermore, the results obtained in the analysis of the analytes in synthetic biological samples were satisfactory, attesting the potential application of the a-CNx electrode in electroanalysis. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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