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CdTe nanorods for nonenzymatic hydrogen peroxide biosensor and optical limiting applications

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Cadmium telluride nanorods (CdTe NRs) have been prepared by the hydrothermal method using ascorbic acid and characterized by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, linear and nonlinear optical properties, magnetic properties, and electrochemical analysis. The temperature-dependent magnetic study shows the ferromagnetic behavior. Modified CdTe NRs/glassy carbon electrode was used as the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) biosensor. It exhibits a linear range (0.67–8.04 μM) with good sensitivity (1326 μA mM−1 cm−2), detection limit (0.1 μM), and a rapid amperometric response time (5 s). It displays a high selectivity toward H2O2 and interference-free phenomenon for other electroactive species such as ascorbic and oxalic acids. The sensor has good selectivity, stability, and reproducibility. CdTe NRs show a better optical limiting property under laser excitation (532 nm, 9 ns) with the two-photon absorption (TPA) coefficient of 12.0 × 10−10 m/W at 100 μJ and an optical limiting of 1.60 J/cm2. These results indicated that the prepared materials could be promising for the detection of hydrogen peroxide and for use as memory storage devices and optical limiters.

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The authors thank the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for providing Nd:YAG laser under FIST and Prof. G. Mohan Rao, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for providing XPS data.

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  1. School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620 024, India

    M. Manikandan, P. Senthilkumar, S. Amreetha & S. Dhanuskodi

  2. Department of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641 046, India

    C. Revathi & R. T. Rajendra Kumar

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Manikandan, M., Revathi, C., Senthilkumar, P. et al. CdTe nanorods for nonenzymatic hydrogen peroxide biosensor and optical limiting applications. Ionics 26, 2003–2010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-019-03361-2

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