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Hirosato Seto1, Takeshi Kondo, Makoto Yuasa
1Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278–8510, Japan.
Abstract:
We fabricated a sensitive and selective electrochemical carbon monoxide (CO) sensor for physiological conditions based on the Pt-Ru system. At a bare Pt-Ru electrode, a linear amperometric response to CO concentration was obtained in the range of 0.9-9 µM. However, significant current response to model electroactive interferents for physiological conditions, uric acid (UA), ascorbic acid (AA) and hydrogen peroxide (HP), was also recorded at the Pt-Ru electrode. The response to UA and AA was highly suppressed by coating the Pt-Ru electrode surface with a Nafion layer, and the response to HP was almost completely eliminated by the additional coating with a MnO(2)/chitosan layer. Finally, at the Pt-Ru/Nafion/MnO(2) electrode, amperometric CO detection with a sensitivity of 173 nA cm(-2) µM(-1) was obtained in the concentration range of 0.9-9 µM with the UA, AA and HP signal being below 1.7% at the same concentration of CO.
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