Hydrothermal carbon （HTC） is typically well- dispersed, but it remains a great challenge for HTC to become conductive. Co-doping with heteroatoms has been confirmed to be an effective strategy to significantly promo...Hydrothermal carbon （HTC） is typically well- dispersed, but it remains a great challenge for HTC to become conductive. Co-doping with heteroatoms has been confirmed to be an effective strategy to significantly promote the electrical conductivity of carbon. Moreover, there is no simple and green method to construct sensitive HTC based electro- chemical biosensors until now. In this paper, N and S dual-doped carbon （NS-C） with ultra-low charge transfer resistance is easily synthesized from L-cysteine and glucose in a hydrothermal reaction system. The morphology, structural prop- erties and electrochemical properties of the as-prepared NS-C are analyzed. In comparison with the undoped hydrothermal （UC） modified glassy carbon electrode （GCE）, the charge transfer resistance of UC （476 Ω） is ten times the value of NS- C （46 Ω）. The developed biosensor shows a better performance to detect glucose in a wide concentration range （50-2500 μmol L^-1） with the detection limit of 1.77 μmol L^-1 （S/N-3） and a high sensitivity （0.0554 μA cm^-2μmol^-1 L）. The apparent Michaelis-Menten constant value of GCE/NS-C/GOx/nafion modified electrode is 0.769 mmol L^-1, indicating a high affinity of glucose oxidase to glucose. These results demonstrate that the hydrothermal method is an effective way for prepar- ing high electrical conductivity carbon with excellent performances in biosensor application.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,2014CB931900)UCAS Young Teacher Research Fund (Y55103NY00,Y55103EY00,and Y25102TN00)+1 种基金Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Z160002)The Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Project Foundation (KFZD-SW-202)
文摘Hydrothermal carbon （HTC） is typically well- dispersed, but it remains a great challenge for HTC to become conductive. Co-doping with heteroatoms has been confirmed to be an effective strategy to significantly promote the electrical conductivity of carbon. Moreover, there is no simple and green method to construct sensitive HTC based electro- chemical biosensors until now. In this paper, N and S dual-doped carbon （NS-C） with ultra-low charge transfer resistance is easily synthesized from L-cysteine and glucose in a hydrothermal reaction system. The morphology, structural prop- erties and electrochemical properties of the as-prepared NS-C are analyzed. In comparison with the undoped hydrothermal （UC） modified glassy carbon electrode （GCE）, the charge transfer resistance of UC （476 Ω） is ten times the value of NS- C （46 Ω）. The developed biosensor shows a better performance to detect glucose in a wide concentration range （50-2500 μmol L^-1） with the detection limit of 1.77 μmol L^-1 （S/N-3） and a high sensitivity （0.0554 μA cm^-2μmol^-1 L）. The apparent Michaelis-Menten constant value of GCE/NS-C/GOx/nafion modified electrode is 0.769 mmol L^-1, indicating a high affinity of glucose oxidase to glucose. These results demonstrate that the hydrothermal method is an effective way for prepar- ing high electrical conductivity carbon with excellent performances in biosensor application.
