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Fabricating Highly Open Porous Microspheres HOPMs via Microfluidic Technology
Published on: May 16, 2022
Porous NiCo2O4 nanoarray-integrated binder-free 3D open electrode offers a highly efficient sensing platform for
1Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials, College of Chemistry, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China. jphdp868@126.com.
Abstract:
High electrical conductivity and the exposure to more active sites are crucial to boost the performance of a glucose sensor. A porous binary metal oxide nanoarray integrated on a binder-free 3D electrode is expected to offer a highly sensitive sensing platform. As a model, porous NiCo2O4 nanowire arrays supported on carbon cloth (NiCo2O4 NWA/CC) have been prepared and used for enzyme-free glucose sensing. NiCo2O4 NWA/CC shows larger effective surface area, superior electronic conductivity, and higher catalytic activity towards enzyme-free glucose sensing, with a linear range from 1 μM to 0.63 mM, a sensitivity of 4.12 mA mM-1 cm-2, and low detection limit of 0.5 μM. Moreover, NiCo2O4 NWA/CC also displays good selectivity and stability and thus, it can be reliable for glucose detection in human serum samples. These findings inspire the fabrication of a high-performance electrochemical sensing platform by preparing porous binary metal oxide nanoarrays supported on a 3D conductive substrate.
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