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Mesoporous ZnO-NiO architectures for use in a high-performance nonenzymatic glucose sensor

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Mesoporous ZnO-NiO architectures were prepared by thermal annealing of zinc-nickel hydroxycarbonate composites. The resulting architectures are shown to be assembled by many mesoporous nanosheets, and this results in a large surface area and a strong synergy between the ZnO and NiO nanoparticles. The material obtained by annealing at 400 °C was used as an electrode that responds to glucose over a wide concentration range (from 0.5 μM to 6.4 mM), with a detection limit as low as 0.5 μM, fast response time (<3 s), and good sensitivity (120.5 μA · mM−1 · cm−2).

The mesoporous ZnO-NiO architecture by annealing at 400 °C was used as an electrode that responds to glucose over a wide concentration range (from 0.5 μM to 6.4 mM), with a detection limit as low as 0.5 μM, fast response time (<3 s), and good sensitivity (120.5 μA · mM−1 · cm−2

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This work is supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents from the ministry of education (NCET-13-0645) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-21201010, 51202106), the Science & Technology Foundation of Henan Province (122102210253, 13A150019), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2012 M521115), and the opening research foundations of State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry.

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    Yuanying Liu, Huan Pang, Chengzhen Wei, Mingming Hao & Shasha Zheng

  2. Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, People’s Republic of China

    Mingbo Zheng

  3. State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Huan Pang

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Liu, Y., Pang, H., Wei, C. et al. Mesoporous ZnO-NiO architectures for use in a high-performance nonenzymatic glucose sensor. Microchim Acta 181, 1581–1589 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-014-1275-9

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