NiII1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane electrocatalytic films prepared on top of surface anchored PAMAM dendrimer layers. A new type of electrocatalytic material for the electrochemical oxidation of methanol.
Gold electrodes, previously prepared with surface anchored PAMAM dendrimers, were further modified with a Ni-containing tetraazamacrocycle resulting in a novel electrocatalytic material which proved to be particularly efficient for the electrochemical oxidation of methanol in basic aqueous medium.
Amperometric Detection of H2O2 Using Gold Electrodes Modified with Starburst PAMAM Dendrimers and Prussian Blue
Gold-bead electrodes were modified by covalent bonding or physical adsorption of several Starburst PAMAM dendrimers (generations 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0) followed by absorption of Prussian Blue (PB). The covalent dendrimer-PB-modified electrodes can be used as amperometric sensors of H2O2 in aqueous solution. They offer enhanced sensitivity with correspondingly lower detection and quantification limits compared to similar amperometric detectors.
Electrochemical and spectrophotometric study of the behavior of electropolymerized nickel porphyrin films in the determination of nitric oxide in solution.
We describe in this paper an electrochemical and spectrophotometric study of the behavior of an electropolymerized nickel porphyrin film as a sensor for the determination of nitric oxide (NO) in aqueous solution. Our results show that the anodic oxidation of NO at the modified electrode may not be the result of a catalytic effect induced by the porphyrinic complex. However, the current (measured by differential pulse amperometry) and calculated NO concentration showed a linear relationship in the range 15 nM-6 muM in aerobic phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.4). These results provide a fruitful example of calibration of such electrochemical sensors for the selective detection of NO with a calculated detection limit, at a signal-to-noise ratio of three, equal to 1.5 nM.