Controlled synthesis of spinel ZnFe2O4 decorated ZnO heterostructures as peroxidase mimetics for enhanced
Minggang Zhao1, Jingyun Huang, Yu Zhou
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 23, 2013
Abstract:
Controlled synthesis of spinel ZnFe2O4 nanoparticle-decorated ZnO nanofiber heterostructures was carried out with regularly varied particle sizes and uniform distribution. The obtained heterostructures possessed enhanced intrinsic peroxidase-like activity, and the activities regularly changed as the sizes of ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles varied. The heterostructures were further applied in sensitive colorimetric biosensing of urine glucose.
