TY - JOUR
T1 - Carbonaceous impurities in carbon nanotubes are responsible for accelerated electrochemistry of cytochrome c
AU - Wang, Lu
AU - Ambrosi, Adriano
AU - Pumera, Martin
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2013/7/2
Y1 - 2013/7/2
N2 - There have been many reports on the excellent electrocatalytic properties of carbon nanotubes toward many substrates. Here, we wish to address and investigate the apparent "good promotion" of the electron transfer to cytochrome c as previously shown and attributed to the electrocatalytic properties of carbon nanotubes (Wang et al. Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 1993). We will show here that the observed electrocatalytic effect toward this probe could be mainly attributed to the carbonaceous impurities present within the carbon nanotubes samples, instead of the carbon nanotubes themselves.
AB - There have been many reports on the excellent electrocatalytic properties of carbon nanotubes toward many substrates. Here, we wish to address and investigate the apparent "good promotion" of the electron transfer to cytochrome c as previously shown and attributed to the electrocatalytic properties of carbon nanotubes (Wang et al. Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 1993). We will show here that the observed electrocatalytic effect toward this probe could be mainly attributed to the carbonaceous impurities present within the carbon nanotubes samples, instead of the carbon nanotubes themselves.
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U2 - 10.1021/ac4010748
DO - 10.1021/ac4010748
M3 - Article
C2 - 23758319
AN - SCOPUS:84880004696
VL - 85
SP - 6195
EP - 6197
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
SN - 0003-2700
IS - 13
ER -