Commercial Copper Foam as an Effective 3D Porous Electrode for Nonenzymatic Glucose Detection

Commercially available copper foam (CF) was used as a 3D porous electrochemical sensing platform for nonenzymatic glucose detection. CF shows high electrocatalytic activity towards glucose oxidation and can be used directly for glucose electrochemical sensing without any pretreatment. The sensor exhibits high performance towards glucose in 0.1M NaOH solution with the linear range from 1 mM to 0.5 mM, the sensitivity of 5.85 mA mM(-1) cm(-2) and the detection limit of 0.5 mu M (S/N=3) simultaneously. Furthermore, the sensor shows a high selectivity for glucose against the common interferences and good reliability for glucose detection in human serum samples.