Journal
BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 61, Issue 1-2, Pages 51-56Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-5394(03)00059-8
Keywords
superoxide anion; aprotic media; carbon nanotubes; powder microelectrode; scavenging activity
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Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are filled in the cavity at the tip of a microelectrode to form a carbon nanotubes powder microelectrode (CNTs-PME). CNTs-PME was used to study electrochemical properties of superoxide anion in aprotic media. The reversibility of the oxygen/superoxide anion couple (O-2/O-2(-)) at the different powder microelectrode in different aprotic media was compared by cyclic voltammetry (CV). The result indicated that the nearly reversible redox process of the O-2/O-2(-) couple was obtained at a CNTs-PME. The heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant (k(s)) can be measured by steady-state voltammogram and the result is 4.7 x 10(-3) cm s(-1), suggesting that the electrode reaction is a nearly reversible process as expected. The scavenging activities of bilirubin, alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), are examined, and the experimental results confirm that a-tocopherol is the better scavenger toward O-2(-) between them. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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