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Screen-printed electrode modified with a composite prepared from graphene oxide nanosheets and Mn3O4 microcubes for ultrasensitive determination of nitrite

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The authors describe a screen-printed electrode (SPE) modified with a composite consisting of Mn3O4 microcubes and thin sheets of graphene oxide for use in amperometric determination of nitrite. The composite was prepared by a hydrothermal method, and its morphology, elemental composition, diffraction, impedance and electrochemical properties were studied. The modified SPE displays excellent electrocatalytic activity towards nitrite, and the oxidation peak current (measured typically at 0.70 V vs. Ag/AgCl) is related to the concentration of nitrite in the range between 0.1 and 1300 μM, with a 20 nM detection limit. The method was successfully applied to the determination of nitrite in spiked samples of beef and water.

Electrochemical determination of nitrite using graphene oxide nanosheets/Mn3O4 microcubes composite modified screen-printed electrode

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This work was supported by the National Science Council and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan (Republic of China) and National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.

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    Akilarasan Muthumariappan, Mani Govindasamy, Shen-Ming Chen, Kogularasu Sakthivel & Veerappan Mani

  2. Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Biochemical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106, People’s Republic of China

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Muthumariappan, A., Govindasamy, M., Chen, SM. et al. Screen-printed electrode modified with a composite prepared from graphene oxide nanosheets and Mn3O4 microcubes for ultrasensitive determination of nitrite. Microchim Acta 184, 3625–3634 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-017-2379-9

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