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Accelerated reconstruction of ZIF-67 with significantly enhanced glucose detection sensitivity

Show Author's Information Huihui Jin1,2,  Weihao Zeng3,  Wei Qian3,  Lun Li3,  Pengxia Ji3,  Zhengying Li1,3( ),  Daping He2( )
School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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reconstruction, zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), electrochemical activation, glucose oxidation, CoOOH
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Research on metal-organic framework (MOF)-based non-enzymatic glucose sensors usually ignores the impact of the surface reconstruction degree of MOF on the activity of catalyzing glucose oxidation. In this work, we choose zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), which is commonly used in glucose sensing, as a representative to investigate the influence of reconstruction degree on its structure and glucose catalytic performance. By employing the electrochemical activation strategy, the activity of ZIF-67 in catalyzing glucose gradually increased with the prolongation of the activation time, reaching the optimum after 2 h activation. The detection sensitivity of the activated ZIF-67 was 19 times higher than that of the initial ZIF-67, and the limit of detection (LOD) was lowered from 7 to 0.4 μM. Our findings demonstrate that the oxidation degree of ZIF-67 deepened rapidly with continuously activation and was basically reconstructed to CoOOH after 2 h activation, accompanied by a morphological change from cuboctahedral to flower-like. Simultaneously, theoretical investigation revealed that ZIF-67 is not suitable as a stable glucose sensor electrode since the adsorbed glucose molecules hasten the dissociation of ligands and the breaking of Co–N bond in ZIF-67. Therefore, our work has important implications for the rational design of next-generation MOF-based glucose sensors.


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Accelerated reconstruction of ZIF-67 with significantly enhanced glucose detection sensitivity

Show Author's information Huihui Jin1,2, Weihao Zeng3, Wei Qian3, Lun Li3, Pengxia Ji3, Zhengying Li1,3( ), Daping He2( )
School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Hubei Engineering Research Center of RF-Microwave Technology and Application, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

Abstract

Research on metal-organic framework (MOF)-based non-enzymatic glucose sensors usually ignores the impact of the surface reconstruction degree of MOF on the activity of catalyzing glucose oxidation. In this work, we choose zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), which is commonly used in glucose sensing, as a representative to investigate the influence of reconstruction degree on its structure and glucose catalytic performance. By employing the electrochemical activation strategy, the activity of ZIF-67 in catalyzing glucose gradually increased with the prolongation of the activation time, reaching the optimum after 2 h activation. The detection sensitivity of the activated ZIF-67 was 19 times higher than that of the initial ZIF-67, and the limit of detection (LOD) was lowered from 7 to 0.4 μM. Our findings demonstrate that the oxidation degree of ZIF-67 deepened rapidly with continuously activation and was basically reconstructed to CoOOH after 2 h activation, accompanied by a morphological change from cuboctahedral to flower-like. Simultaneously, theoretical investigation revealed that ZIF-67 is not suitable as a stable glucose sensor electrode since the adsorbed glucose molecules hasten the dissociation of ligands and the breaking of Co–N bond in ZIF-67. Therefore, our work has important implications for the rational design of next-generation MOF-based glucose sensors.

Keywords: reconstruction, zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), electrochemical activation, glucose oxidation, CoOOH

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Received: 30 November 2023
Revised: 10 December 2023
Accepted: 11 December 2023
Published: 25 January 2024
Issue date: June 2024

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This work was financially sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22102128 and 22279097) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. WUT:2022IVA168).

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