Electrochemical signal response for vitamin B1 using terbium luminescent nanoscale building blocks as optical sensors

Zhan Zhou, Chaoliang Tan, Yuhui Zheng, Qianming Wang*

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Abstract

A luminescent terbium complex was covalently modified onto anisotropic gold nanostructures (nanoparticles and nanorods) respectively. Two novel emissive gold nanoprobes were successfully developed for selective and rapid determination of vitamin B1 in water. More significantly, electrochemical sensing performances were investigated based on green emissive gold nanoparticles and nanorods which were fabricated by anchoring gold nano-sensors on the surface of glassy carbon electrodes. Both the fluorescence spectra and cyclic voltammetry curves exhibited selective signal changes in the presence of vitamin B1 in comparison with vitamin B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6. It is considered to be the first example that different dimensional fluorescent nano-probes were selected and applied as dual opto-electrochemical sensors for recognizing the same analyte. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1176-1182
JournalSensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
Volume188
Online published17 Aug 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

Research Keywords

  • Cyclic voltammetry
  • Gold
  • Nanoprobes
  • Terbium
  • Vitamin B1

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