Yonglan Ding

Carbon nanomaterial based electrochemical sensors for biogenic amines

AbstractThis review describes recent advances in the use of carbon nanomaterials for electroanalytical detection of biogenic amines (BAs). It starts with a short introduction into carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, carbon nanofibers, fullerenes, and their composites. Next, electrochemical sensing schemes are discussed for various BAs including dopamine, serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, tyramine, histamine and putrescine. Examples are then given for methods for simultaneous detection of various BAs. Finally, we discuss the current and future challenges of carbon nanomaterial-based electrochemical sensors for BAs. The review contains 175 references. FigureThis article reviews recent advances in the use of carbon nanomaterials (CNs) for the electroanalytical measurements of biogenic amines.

Electrochemical determination of toxic ractopamine at an ordered mesoporous carbon modified electrode.

A sensitive electrochemical sensor was developed to detect toxic ractopamine using ordered mesoporus carbon (OMC) modified glass carbon electrode (OMC/GCE). Cyclic voltammetry was used to investigate the electrochemical behaviours of ractopamine on OMC/GCE. The results indicated that the OMC modified electrode can remarkably enhance electrocatalytic activity towards the oxidation of ractopamine with a great increase of peak current. The oxidation mechanism was studied and the results showed that the oxidation of ractopamine involved two protons and two electrons of its two phenolic hydroxyl groups. The signal for the determination of ractopamine was recorded using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and the optimisation for the experimental conditions was also conducted. The results showed that the response of the sensor to concentration of ractopamine displayed a linear correlation over a range from 0.085 μM to 8.0 μM with a detection limit of 0.06 μM, demonstrating favourable sensitivity and selectivity for the detection of ractopamine. Finally, the method was successfully applied for the determination of ractopamine in pork samples with satisfying recoveries in the range of 96.6-104.5% and excellent RSD of less than 5%.