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Engineering Molecular Recognition with Bio-mimetic Polymers on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Published on: January 10, 2017
Single-walled carbon nanotube/pyrenecyclodextrin nanohybrids for ultrahighly sensitive and selective detection of
Yan Wei1, Ling-Tao Kong, Ran Yang
1College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, PR China.
Abstract:
Electrochemical detection of p-nitrophenol (P-NP) using a highly sensitive and selective platform based on single-walled carbon nanotube/pyrenecyclodextrin (SWCNT/PyCD) nanohybrids is described for the first time. The electrochemical performance of the SWCNT/PyCD nanohybrid electrode was fully compared with bare glassy carbon, single-SWCNT, single-PyCD, and SWCNT/CD (without pyrene rings) electrodes. Besides the techniques of cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometric transients, differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) has been used for the detection of P-NP without any interference from o-nitrophenol (O-NP) at the potentials of -0.80 and -0.67 V, respectively. The SWCNT/PyCD nanohybrid electrode is highly sensitive, and it shows an ultrahigh sensitivity of 18.7 μA/μM toward P-NP in contrast to the values reported previously. The detection limit (S/N = 3) of the SWCNT/PyCD nanohybrid electrode toward P-NP is 0.00086 μM (0.12 ppb), which is well below the allowed limit in drinking water, 0.43 μM, given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The analytical performance of the SWCNT/PyCD nanohybrid electrode toward P-NP is superior to the existing electrodes.
