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Flotation Assembly of Large-Area Ultrathin MWCNT Nanofilms for Construction of Bioelectrodes.


ABSTRACT: We report a simple, versatile, and rapid method for the fabrication of optically-transparent large-area carbon nanotube (CNT) films via flotation assembly. After solvent-induced assembly, floating films were transferred to a flat supporting substrate to form conductive and transparent CNT film electrodes. The resulting electrodes, with uniform 40 ± 20 nm multi-walled CNT (MWCNT) layers, were characterized by electrochemical and microscopy methods. The flotation method does not require specialized thin-film instrumentation and avoids the need for surfactants and pre-oxidized CNTs which can hamper electrochemical performance. A proof-of-concept nanostructured bioelectrode demonstrating high sensitivity for glucose was developed with an electropolymerized poly(pyrene-adamantane) layer for host-guest immobilization of active ?-cyclodextrin tagged GOx enzymes. The polymer provides pyrene groups for cross-linking to CNTs and pendant adamantane groups for binding the ?-cyclodextrin groups of the tagged enzyme. This demonstration offers a new approach for the preparation of stable and transparent CNT film electrodes with attractive electrochemical properties towards future photobio- and bio-electrochemical fuel cells, electrochemical sensors, and electroanalysis.

SUBMITTER: Gross AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666507 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Flotation Assembly of Large-Area Ultrathin MWCNT Nanofilms for Construction of Bioelectrodes.

Gross Andrew J AJ   Hammond Jules L JL   Holzinger Michael M   Cosnier Serge S  

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20171021 10


We report a simple, versatile, and rapid method for the fabrication of optically-transparent large-area carbon nanotube (CNT) films via flotation assembly. After solvent-induced assembly, floating films were transferred to a flat supporting substrate to form conductive and transparent CNT film electrodes. The resulting electrodes, with uniform 40 ± 20 nm multi-walled CNT (MWCNT) layers, were characterized by electrochemical and microscopy methods. The flotation method does not require specialize  ...[more]

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