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Preparation of Asparagus-Shaped CuO Nanostructures and Their Electrocatalytic Activity for Glucose Oxidation

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Asparagus-shaped CuO nanostructures were prepared by hydrothermal method using CuCl2·2H2O and NaOH as raw materials, using CTAB as surfactant. The effects of various factors such as the reaction temperature, the surfactant addition amount and the reactants concentration on the CuO crystal phase were studied by X-ray diffraction. The composition and morphology were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). A glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified by asparagus-shaped CuO nanostructures was used as the working electrode, the Ag/AgCl electrode was used as the reference electrode, and Pt wire electrode was used as the auxiliary electrode, the electrocatalytic activity for glucose was tested in a three-electrode system. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) curves show that the redox peak current of 0.1 M NaOH electrolyte with glucose is larger than that of NaOH without glucose, indicating that asparagus-shaped CuO nanostructures have good catalytic oxidation performance for glucose. The mechanism of electrocatalytic oxidation of glucose has been proposed.

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This work was financially supported by the Opening Project of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural Materials and Application Technology (Grant No. ASMA201603) and the Doctor Initial Foundation of Jinling Institute of Technology (Grant No. jit-b-201309).

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    Runhua Qin, Lingyun Hao, Juan Li, Yongheng Wang, Zhaoyin Qi & Gang Liu

  2. Nanjing Key Laboratory of Optometric Materials and Technology, Nanjing, 211169, China

    Runhua Qin & Lingyun Hao

  3. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural Materials and Application Technology, Nanjing, 211167, China

    Lingyun Hao

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Qin, R., Hao, L., Li, J. et al. Preparation of Asparagus-Shaped CuO Nanostructures and Their Electrocatalytic Activity for Glucose Oxidation. J Inorg Organomet Polym 30, 1744–1751 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-019-01278-x

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