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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2341-2346 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Electroanalysis |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Generated from Scopus record by KAUST IRTS on 2023-09-21ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry
- Electrochemistry