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Photoelectrochemical dopamine sensor based on a gold electrode modified with SnSe nanosheets

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The authors have prepared SnSe nanosheets by a solvothermal method and used them to modify a gold electrode to obtain a photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor for dopamine (DA) which yields a signal upon irradiation with visible light. On addition of DA, the photocurrent is significantly higher than in the absence of DA, and it increases with increasing DA concentration. A PEC sensor was developed based on this finding which responds linearly to DA in the 0.01 μM to 10 μM concentration range and with a 3 nM detection limit. The application of this PEC sensor in actual samples was also tested. The mechanism of PEC analysis of DA is provided. The electrons of SnSe NSs were excited under irradiation with visible light and transformed from valance band to conduction band. DA as electron donor provided the electrons to SnSe NSs. An enhanced photocurrent was obtained.

Schematic of a photoelectrochemical platform for sensing dopamine by using a gold electrode modified with SnSe nanosheets. It has a detection limit of 3 nM.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21575073, 21405088), the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province, Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2014JL013) and the Open Project Program of the Key Laboratory of Marine Bioactive Substance and Modern Analysis Technology, SOA (MBSMAT-2015-04).

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    Xu Hun, Shanshan Wang, Hongqing Qin, Hui Zhang & Xiliang Luo

  2. School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China

    Shuyu Mei

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Hun, X., Wang, S., Mei, S. et al. Photoelectrochemical dopamine sensor based on a gold electrode modified with SnSe nanosheets. Microchim Acta 184, 3333–3338 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-017-2347-4

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