Carbon Black-Modified Electrodes Screen-Printed onto Paper Towel, Waxed Paper and Parafilm M®
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Department of Chemical Science and Technology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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Department of Engineering, University of Rome Niccolò Cusano, Via Don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166 Rome, Italy
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Sensors 2017, 17(10), 2267; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17102267
Received: 22 July 2017
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Revised: 29 September 2017
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Accepted: 30 September 2017
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Published: 3 October 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors Based on Carbon Electrodes)
Herein, we evaluated the use of paper towel, waxed paper, and Parafilm M® (Heathrow Scientific, Vernon Hills, IL, USA) as alternative substrates for screen-printed sensor manufacturing. Morphological study was performed to evaluate the adhesion of the ink on these uncommon substrates, as well as the morphology of the working electrode. The electrochemical characterization was carried out using ferricyanide/ferrocyanide as redox couple. To enhance the electrochemical properties of the developed sensors, the nanomaterial carbon black was used as nanomodifier. The modification by drop casting of the working electrode surface, using a stable dispersion of carbon black, allows to obtain a sensor with improved electrochemical behavior in terms of peak-to-peak separation, current intensity, and the resistance of charge transfer. The results achieved confirm the possibility of printing the electrode on several cost-effective paper-based materials and the improvement of the electrochemical behavior by using carbon black as sustainable nanomaterial.
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Keywords:
screen-printed electrodes; carbon black; paper towel; waxed paper; parafilm
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Cinti, S.; Mazzaracchio, V.; Cacciotti, I.; Moscone, D.; Arduini, F. Carbon Black-Modified Electrodes Screen-Printed onto Paper Towel, Waxed Paper and Parafilm M®. Sensors 2017, 17, 2267. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17102267
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Cinti S, Mazzaracchio V, Cacciotti I, Moscone D, Arduini F. Carbon Black-Modified Electrodes Screen-Printed onto Paper Towel, Waxed Paper and Parafilm M®. Sensors. 2017; 17(10):2267. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17102267
Chicago/Turabian StyleCinti, Stefano, Vincenzo Mazzaracchio, Ilaria Cacciotti, Danila Moscone, and Fabiana Arduini. 2017. "Carbon Black-Modified Electrodes Screen-Printed onto Paper Towel, Waxed Paper and Parafilm M®" Sensors 17, no. 10: 2267. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17102267
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