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Performance improvement in chemical oxygen demand determination using carbon fiber felt/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode deposited by cyclic voltammetry method

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A three-dimensional (3D) structured electrode in which a compact CeO2-β-PbO2 particle layer on each carbon fiber in the felt (denoted as CF/CeO2-β-PbO2) was fabricated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) method in the presence of CeO2 nanoparticles in the electrolyte and supposed to be used as a sensor for in situ chemical oxygen demand (COD) detection. It was found that CeO2 was codeposited with PbO2 onto the anode, and the deposited crystals were tiny and compacted with each other. The electrochemical behaviors demonstrate that the fabricated CF/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode possesses larger effective surface area, higher electrochemically catalytic activity, and better mechanical stability as compared with the anode without CeO2 deposited by CV method or constant potential (CP) method. The results of COD determination by the fabricated CF/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode show a sensitivity of (3.0 ± 0.02) × 10−3 mA cm−2/mg L−1, a detection limit of 3.6 mg L−1 (S/N = 3) and a linear range of 30–8500 mg L−1 with correlation coefficient (R) of 0.9985 and RSD within 5 %.

A 3D CF/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode with CeO2-β-PbO2 particle layer on each carbon fiber in the felt was supposed to be used as a sensor for in situ chemical oxygen demand (COD) detection. It was fabricated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) method in the presence of CeO2 nanoparticles in the electrolyte containing Pb2+. It was found that CeO2 was codeposited with PbO2 onto the anode and the deposited particles became tinier and more compact. The addition of CeO2 enhances the electrochemical catalytic activity. Tinier and more compact crystals enlarge the effective electrode area and improve the mechanical strength, which makes the CF/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode possess higher detection sensitivity, wider linearity range, and longer service life in COD detection as compared with the anodes without CeO2 fabricated by CV method or constant potential (CP) method.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51374016), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Nos. YS1406, JD1415, JD1515), BUCT Fund for Disciplines Construction and Development (No. XK1531), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. JD1515). This work is supported by the Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmentally Harmful Chemical Analysis. The authors especially thank Prof. Xiaoguang Liu for the important discussions and suggestions of this Work.

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Mo, H., Tang, Y., Wang, N. et al. Performance improvement in chemical oxygen demand determination using carbon fiber felt/CeO2-β-PbO2 electrode deposited by cyclic voltammetry method. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 2179–2189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3207-6

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