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The wetting properties of an electrode surface are of significant importance to the performance of electrochemical devices because electron transfer occurs at the electrode/electrolyte interface. Described in this paper is a low-cost metal oxide electrocatalyst (CuO)-based high-performance sensing device using an enzyme electrode with a solid/liquid/air triphase interface in which the oxygen level is constant and sufficiently high. We apply the sensing device to detect glucose, a model test analyte, and demonstrate a linear dynamic range up to 50 mM, which is about 25 times higher than that obtained using a traditional enzyme electrode with a solid/liquid diphase interface. Moreover, we show that sensing devices based on a triphase assaying interface are insensitive to the significant oxygen level fluctuation in the analyte solution.


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High performance metal oxide based sensing device using an electrode with a solid/liquid/air triphase interface

Show Author's information Jun Zhang1,2,§Xia Sheng1,§Jian Jin2Xinjian Feng1( )Lei Jiang3
College of ChemistryChemical Engineering and Materials ScienceSoochow UniversitySuzhou215123China
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-BionicsChinese Academy of SciencesSuzhou215123China
School of Chemistry and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijing100191China

§ Jun Zhang and Xia Sheng contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

The wetting properties of an electrode surface are of significant importance to the performance of electrochemical devices because electron transfer occurs at the electrode/electrolyte interface. Described in this paper is a low-cost metal oxide electrocatalyst (CuO)-based high-performance sensing device using an enzyme electrode with a solid/liquid/air triphase interface in which the oxygen level is constant and sufficiently high. We apply the sensing device to detect glucose, a model test analyte, and demonstrate a linear dynamic range up to 50 mM, which is about 25 times higher than that obtained using a traditional enzyme electrode with a solid/liquid diphase interface. Moreover, we show that sensing devices based on a triphase assaying interface are insensitive to the significant oxygen level fluctuation in the analyte solution.

Keywords: electrocatalyst, metal oxide, superhydrophobicity, triphase interface, sensing device

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Received: 12 December 2016
Revised: 13 January 2017
Accepted: 03 February 2017
Published: 12 May 2017
Issue date: September 2017

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21371178), the Jiangsu Province Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. BK20150032), and the Chinese Thousand Youth Talents Program (No. YZBQF11001).

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