Scientists in Italy have engineered a cheap and simple electrochemical sensor that cleans itself when exposed to ultraviolet light. Their system offers a route towards self-cleaning electrodes with myriad environmental and biomedical sensing applications – from detecting pollutants in water to monitoring medications in blood.
Open any book on chemical or biological sensors and you’ll find a lot of content on electrochemical devices. This prevalence is testament to the importance and advantages of electrode-based sensing; and electrodes containing nanomaterials are becoming increasingly popular, owing to their high surface-to-volume ratio, which can improve their sensitivity and lower costs.
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Self-cleaning properties in engineered sensors for dopamine electroanalytical detection
Guido Soliveri, Valentina Pifferi, Guido Panzarasa, Silvia Ardizzone, Giuseppe Cappelletti, Daniela Meroni, Katia Sparnacci and Luigi Falciola
Analyst, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN02219J
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