Three-Dimensional Cu Foam-Supported Single Crystalline Mesoporous Cu2O Nanothorn Arrays for Ultra-Highly Sensitive and Efficient Nonenzymatic Detection of Glucose

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• 作者：Chaoqun Dong ; Hua Zhong ; Tianyi Kou ; Jan Frenzel ; Gunther Eggeler ; Zhonghua Zhang
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 16, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：36
• 页码：20215-20223
• 全文大小：598K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Highly sensitive and efficient biosensors play a crucial role in clinical, environmental, industrial, and agricultural applications, and tremendous efforts have been dedicated to advanced electrode materials with superior electrochemical activities and low cost. Here, we report a three-dimensional binder-free Cu foam-supported Cu₂O nanothorn array electrode developed via facile electrochemistry. The nanothorns growing in situ along the specific direction of <01line">1> have single crystalline features and a mesoporous surface. When being used as a potential biosensor for nonenzyme glucose detection, the hybrid electrode exhibits multistage linear detection ranges with ultrahigh sensitivities (maximum of 97.9 mA mM^鈥? cm^鈥?) and an ultralow detection limit of 5 nM. Furthermore, the electrode presents outstanding selectivity and stability toward glucose detection. The distinguished performances endow this novel electrode with powerful reliability for analyzing human serum samples. These unprecedented sensing characteristics could be ascribed to the synergistic action of superior electrochemical catalytic activity of nanothorn arrays with dramatically enhanced surface area and intimate contact between the active material (Cu₂O) and current collector (Cu foam), concurrently supplying good conductivity for electron/ion transport during glucose biosensing. Significantly, our findings could guide the fabrication of new metal oxide nanostructures with well-organized morphologies and unique properties as well as low materials cost.