Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Modified Electrodes for Stripping Voltammetry
By Zhao, Daoli; Wang, Tingting; Han, Daewoo; Rusinek, Cory; Steckl, Andrew J. & Heineman, William R.
Published in Analytical Chemistry
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2015
Abstract
Electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) based carbon nanofibers (CNFs) have attracted intense attention due to their easy processing, high carbon yield, and robust mechanical properties. In this work, a CNF modified glassy carbon (GC) electrode that was coated with Nafion polymer was evaluated as a new electrode material for the simultaneous determination of trace levels of heavy metal ions by anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV). Pb2+ and Cd2+ were used as a representative system for this initial study. Well-defined stripping voltammograms were obtained when Pb2+ and Cd2+ were determined individually and then simultaneously in a mixture. Compared to a bare GC electrode, the CNF/Nafion modified GC (CNF/Nafion/GC) electrode improved the sensitivity for lead detection by 8-fold. The interface properties of the CNF/Nafion/GC were characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), which showed the importance of the ratio of CNF/Nafion on electrode performance. Under optimized conditions, the detection limits are 0.9 and 1.5 nM for Pb2+ and Cd2+, respectively.
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