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Synthesis of ZnO–CuO porous core–shell spheres and their application for non-enzymatic glucose sensor

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In this work, ZnO–CuO composite porous spheres with core–shell structure were successfully synthesized through a controllable simple top-down route to take advantage of the excellent features of ZnO and CuO. The crystal structure and morphology of the as-prepared products were characterized, and a possible growth mechanism was proposed. The obtained sample with a core surrounded by a porous shell has a large surface area. As CuO can well catalyze glucose in alkaline solution, together with the good electron transfer property of ZnO and the hetero-junction formed between them, non-enzymatic glucose sensors based on ZnO–CuO composite porous spheres show good performance with a wide linear range of 0.02–4.86 mM, a high sensitivity of 1,217.4 μA cm−2 mM−1, and a low detection limit of 1.677 μM, indicating a good detection behavior of glucose.

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This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (91333203), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang province (LY14E020006) and the Doctorate Fund of the Ministry of Education under Grant no. 2011010110013.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Bin Cai, Yu Zhou, Minggang Zhao, Hui Cai, Zhizhen Ye, Lei Wang & Jingyun Huang

  2. Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhizhen Ye & Jingyun Huang

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Cai, B., Zhou, Y., Zhao, M. et al. Synthesis of ZnO–CuO porous core–shell spheres and their application for non-enzymatic glucose sensor. Appl. Phys. A 118, 989–996 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8855-8

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