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Hydrothermal and plasma nitrided electrospun carbon nanofibers for amperometric sensing of hydrogen peroxide

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Nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers (CNFs) were prepared by an electrospinning method, this followed by a hydrothermal reaction or nitrogen plasma treatment to obtain electrode for non-enzymatic amperometric sensing of H2O2. The hydrothermally treated electrode performs better. Its electrochemical surface is 3.7 × 10−3 mA cm−2, which is larger than that of a nitrogen plasma treated electrode (8.9 × 10−4) or a non-doped CNF (2.45 × 10−4 mA cm−2). The hydrothermally treated CNF with rough surface and a complex profile with doped N has a higher sensitivity (357 μA∙mM−1∙cm−2), a lower detection limit (0.62 μM), and a wider linear range (0.01–0.71 mM) than N-CNFP at a working potential of −0.4 V (vs. Ag/AgCl). The electrode gave high recoveries when applied to the analysis of milk samples spiked with H2O2.

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers prepared by an electrospinning method followed by a hydrothermal reaction (N-CNFht) or nitrogen plasma treatment (N-CNFP) are directly used as non-enzymatic amperometric H2O2 sensors.

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The authors thank the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, for financially supporting this research under Contract Nos. MOST 106-2221-E-151-039-MY3 and MOST 105-2628-E-006-009-MY3 as well as Mr. Shyne-Yen Yao at National Cheng Kung University and Mr. Hsien-Tsan Lin of Regional Instruments Center at National Sun Yat-Sen University for their assistance for TEM experiments.

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    Yuan-Ping Lyu, Yi-Shan Wu, Tzu-Pei Wang & Chien-Liang Lee

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 701, Taiwan

    Meng-Yin Chung & Chieh-Tsung Lo

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Lyu, YP., Wu, YS., Wang, TP. et al. Hydrothermal and plasma nitrided electrospun carbon nanofibers for amperometric sensing of hydrogen peroxide. Microchim Acta 185, 371 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-018-2915-2

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