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Assembling gold nanorods on a poly-cysteine modified glassy carbon electrode strongly enhance the electrochemical reponse to tetrabromobisphenol A

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Cysteine (Cys) was electrochemically deposited on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) by cyclic voltammetry. The poly-Cys modified electrode was placed in a solution of gold nanorods (GNRs) to induced self-assembly of the GNRs. The GNRs/poly-Cys/GCEs were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. A voltammetric study on tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) with this GCE showed the current response to be enhanced by a factor of 11 compared to a non-modified GCE. Based on these findings, a square wave voltammetric assay was worked out. Under optimized conditions, a linear relationship between the oxidation peak current and TBBPA is found for the 10 nM to 10 μM concentration range. The detection limit is 3.2 nM (at an S/N ratio of 3). The electrode was successfully applied to the determination of TBBPA in spiked tap water and lake water samples.

Gold nanorods (GNRs) were assembled on the surface of a poly-L-cysteine film - modified glassy carbon electrode and used as a sensing interface for enhancing the voltammetric response towards tetrabromobisphenol A.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports from the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2015CB352100), Natural Science Foundation of China (No.21275166), Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No.2015CFA092) and Research Foundation of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (No. 2013Qk286).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yanying Wang & Kangbing Wu

  2. Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yanying Wang & Chunya Li

  3. Chaozhou Quality and Measurement Supervision and Inspection Institute, Chaozhou, 521011, China

    Guishen Liu, Xiaodong Hou & Yina Huang

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Wang, Y., Liu, G., Hou, X. et al. Assembling gold nanorods on a poly-cysteine modified glassy carbon electrode strongly enhance the electrochemical reponse to tetrabromobisphenol A. Microchim Acta 183, 689–696 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-015-1708-0

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