1. A poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)-based electrochemical sensor for tert.-butylhydroquinone.
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Tian, Qingyun, Xu, Jingkun, Xu, Quan, Duan, Xuemin, Jiang, Fengxing, Lu, Limin, Jia, Haiyan, Jia, Yanhua, Li, Yingying, and Yu, Yongfang
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ELECTROCHEMICAL sensors , *FOOD emulsifiers , *ELECTROCHEMICAL analysis , *DIMETHYL sulfoxide , *CATIONIC surfactants , *CETYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM bromide , *POLYTHIOPHENES - Abstract
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is a readily available copolymer that comes as an aqueous dispersion with good processability. A flexible voltammetric sensor for the widely used food stabilizer tert.-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) was constructed by using a film of PEDOT:PSS. The electron transfer efficiency of the electrode was enhanced by doping with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and mass transport at the electrode-electrolyte interface was increased by adding the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) which acts as a sorbent for TBHQ. SEM, AFM, XPS, UV − vis and electrochemical analysis were conducted to characterize the properties of the electrode. After optimization of the experimental conditions, the electrode operated at a working potential of 0.17 V (vs. SCE) has a linear response in the 0.5–200 μM TBHQ concentration range and a lower detection limit of 0.15 μM (at S/N = 3). It was applied for the determination of TBHQ in spiked real samples, and recoveries ranged between 96.85 and 103.41%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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