Title
A novel electrochemical platform based on mesoporous silica/titania and gold nanoparticles for simultaneous determination of norepinephrine and dopamine
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Morawski F.d.M.
Xavier B.B.
Virgili A.H.
Caetano K.d.S.
de Menezes E.W.
Benvenutti E.V.
Costa T.M.H.
Institute of Chemistry
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
An amorphous and mesoporous silica/titania (SiTi) material was synthesized by sol-gel method and its surface was modified with gold nanoparticles (AuNP) previously stabilized in a chitosan solution. The presence of small AuNP, with diameter lower than 10 nm was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and UV–Vis spectroscopy. Carbon paste electrodes were prepared to test the electrochemical properties by using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in [Fe(CN)6]3−/4− solution probe whereby the material silica-titania/gold nanoparticles (SiTi/AuNP) showed a huge improvement in the redox peak current and low charge transfer resistance. This electrode presented a good response for both norepinephrine and dopamine by means of square wave voltammetry (SWV) measurements; great sensitivity for both analytes, in an extensive linear range, was obtained. The limits of detection were 0.35 μmol L−1 and 0.57 μmol L−1 for norepinephrine and dopamine, respectively. Additionally, this electrode showed high selectivity for both analytes and it was applied in the simultaneous determination of norepinephrine and dopamine. The sensor was also tested in simulated biological fluids presenting a good recovery. The SWV electrochemical response of norepinephrine was also investigated in the presence of possible interferers such as uric acid, ascorbic acid and glucose and there was no significant interference. The prepared electrode also exhibits good reproducibility for norepinephrine detection, with relative standard deviation of 5.19%.
Volume
120
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-tecnología Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85095824581
PubMed ID
Source
Materials Science and Engineering C
ISSN of the container
09284931
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank to CNPq , CAPES , FAPERGS for their financial support and CNANO-UFRGS and CMM-UFRGS for the facilities and Prof. Silvio Luis Pereira Dias for providing support in electrochemical analysis. FAPERGS – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul; CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal de Nível Superior. The authors thank to CNPq, CAPES, FAPERGS for their financial support and CNANO-UFRGS and CMM-UFRGS for the facilities and Prof. Silvio Luis Pereira Dias for providing support in electrochemical analysis. FAPERGS ? Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul; CNPq ? Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico and CAPES - Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento Pessoal de N?vel Superior. F.de M. Morawski performed the investigation in synthesis and characterization of silica/titania materials and electrochemical measurements, collaborated in writing and editing. K. dos S. Caetano and B.B. Xavier contributed to perform the investigation in electrochemical experiments. A.H Virgili and E.W de Menezes performed the investigation and methodology of synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles. E.V. Benvenutti was responsible by textural properties investigation and methodology, writing and resources, T.M.H.Costa: Conceptualization, design, synthesis and characterization of matrix and electrodes, writing, editing and resources. L.T. Arenas is responsible by supervision, conceptualization, designing of the work, writing manuscript, editing and resources. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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