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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 596, Issue 2, Pages 222-230Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2007.05.057
Keywords
overoxidized polypyrrole; gold nanoclusters; electrochemical deposition; epinephrine; uric acid
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A novel biosensor was fabricated by electrochemical deposition of gold nanoclusters on ultrathin overoxidized polypyrrole (PPyox) film, formed a nano-Au/PPyox composite on glassy carbon electrode (nano-Au/PPyox/GCE). The properties of the nanocomposite have been characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electrochemical investigations. The nano-Au/PPyox/GCE had strongly catalytic activity toward the oxidation of epinephrine (EP), uric acid (UA) and ascorbic acid (AA), and resolved the overlapping voltammetric response of EP, UA and AA into three well-defined peaks with a large anodic peak difference. The catalytic peak currents obtained from differential pulse voltammetry increased linearly with increasing EP and UA concentrations in the range of 3.0 x 10(-7) to 2.1 x 10(-5) M and 5.0 x 10(-8) to 2.8 x 10(-5) M with a detection limit of 3.0 x 10(-8) and 1.2 x 10(-8) M (s/n = 3), respectively. The results showed that the modified electrode can selectively determine EP and UA in the coexistence of a large amount of AA. In addition, the sensor exhibited excellent sensitivity, selectivity and stability. The nano-Au/PPyox/GCE has been applied to determination of EP in epinephrine hydrochloride injection and UA in urine samples with satisfactory results. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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