Potentiostatic Electrochemical Preparation of Bismuth Nanoribbons and its Application in Biologically Poisoning Lead and Cadmium Heavy Metal Ions Detection

Rajkumar Devasenathipathy, Raj Karthik, Shen Ming Chen, Veerappan Mani, V. S. Vasantha, M. Ajmal Ali, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Bih Show Lou, Fahad M.A. Al-Hemaid

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Abstract

A simple and elegant electrochemical potentiostatic method has been described for the preparation of highly stable and electrocatalytically active bismuth nanoribbons (BiNRs). The average length and width of the BiNRs were of 100±50nm and 10±5μm, respectively. Here, disodium ethylene diamine tetraacetate was employed as a scaffold for the growth of BiNRs. The formation of BiNRs was confirmed by surface morphological, elemental and cyclic voltammetric analyses. The BiNRs exhibited excellent electrocatalytic ability in detecting biologically poisoning heavy metal ions such as lead and cadmium. The described BiNRs based sensor presents good linear dependence on lead and cadmium ions in the concentration range of 1-50μg/L for both metal ions with a detection limit of 0.104μg/L for lead and 0.145μg/L for cadmium.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2341-2346
Number of pages6
JournalElectroanalysis
Volume27
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2015
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Electrochemistry

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