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Facile Fabrication of NiO-Decorated Double-Layer Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper for Glucose Detection
journal contribution
posted on 2019-02-25, 00:00 authored by Tianxiang Zhu, Yifan Zhang, Liqiang Luo, Xinluo ZhaoA novel
NiO-decorated flexible buckypaper (NiO-BP) was fabricated
by a simple and scalable vacuum filtration method for electrochemical
detection of glucose. The NiO-BP consists of two layers: one side
is composed of purified single-walled carbon nanotubes, serving as
the supporting layer, whereas the other side comprises NiO-loaded
single-walled carbon nanotubes, serving as the catalyst layer. The
morphology and structure of NiO-BP were characterized by scanning
electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction
and Raman spectroscopy. The fabricated NiO-BP was applied to the electrochemical
detection of glucose. Under optimized conditions, the sensor exhibited
a wide linear range of 0.1–9 mM for the determination of glucose
with high sensitivity (2701 μA mM–1 cm–2) and a short response time (<2.5 s). The present
work reveals that the buckypaper with a unique double-layer structure
is promising for wearable biosensors.