Nanostructured ZnO with its unique properties could provide a suitable microenvironment for immobilization of enzymes while retaining their biological activity, and thus lead to an expanded use of this nanomaterial for the construction of electrochemical biosensors with enhanced analytical performance. ZnO-based enzyme electrochemical biosensors are summarized in several tables for an easy over...

The technlque of scannlng electrochemical mlcroscopy (SECM) Is descrlbed. I n thls technlque the electrolysls current that flows as an ultramicroelectrode tlp (diameter ca. 10 gm) Immersed In a soiutlon Is moved above a substrate surface is used to characterize processes and structural features of the substrate. Modes of Operation consldered Include collectlon modes, where products electrogener...

The effect of adsorption on molecular properties and reactivity is a central topic in interfacial physical chemistry. At electrochemical interfaces, adsorbed molecules may lose their electrochemical activity. The absence of in situ probes has hindered our understanding of this phenomenon and electrode reactions in general. In this work, classical electrochemistry and electrochemical scanning tu...

Corrosion of structural steel in an SRB containing environment for as long as 9 months, is studied using the Electrochemical Noise Analysis technique. The results show that the activity of the system, which was very low initially, started to increase after 6 months exposure to the environment. The power spectral density curves of the Electrochemical Potential Noise of the system, using the maxi...

Various gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were in-situ prepared on the electrode surface through electrochemical reduction under different potentials such as -0.60, -0.50, -0.40, -0.30 and -0.20 V. The reduction potentials heavily affect the surface morphology and electrochemical activity of AuNPs such as effective area and catalytic ability, as confirmed using atomic force microscopy and electrochemi...

A sensitive and selective electrochemical aptasensor for thrombin detection was constructed based on hemin/G-quadruplex as the signal label and Fe3O4-Au nanocomposites with glucose oxidase (GOx-) and peroxide-mimicking enzyme activity as the signal enhancers. Due to their large surface area and good biocompatibility, Fe3O4-Au nanocomposites were employed to immobilize electroactive hemin/G-quad...

This communication reports fully electrochemical nanoengineering toward three-dimensionally grown thorn-like Cu nanowire arrays (CNWAs) as a highly efficient and durable electrocatalyst for hydrazine oxidation. Characterized by substantial negative shifting of the onset potential and an enlarged catalytic current density, the CNWAs afforded greatly enhanced hydrazine oxidation activity, even tr...

The direct reagentless electrochemical detection of recombinant firefly luciferase binding with gold electrode modified with nickel ions has been carried out. Self-assembly of molecules of functional disulfide containing chelating moieties on the gold electrode was monitored by contact angle measurements and confirmed by electrochemical data as three times decrease of electric double layer capa...

Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as advanced metal catalyst support for electrocatalysis. In this work, different carbon support materials including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and XC-72 carbon black, were compared in terms of their electrochemical properties using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The ...

Graphite-based electrodes (graphite, graphene, and nanotubes) are used widely in electrochemistry, and there is a long-standing view that graphite step edges are needed to catalyze many reactions, with the basal surface considered to be inert. In the present work, this model was tested directly for the first time using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy reactive patterning and shown to be...