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Electrochemical Carbon Nanoprobes For Biological And Chemical System Studies, Keke Hu Sep 2019

Electrochemical Carbon Nanoprobes For Biological And Chemical System Studies, Keke Hu

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The progress in the field of nanoelectrochemistry requires preparation and characterization of nanometer scale electrochemical probes. The focus of my Ph.D. research was on development of carbon nanopipette-based electrodes with versatile and controllable geometry and their applications to nanoscale studies of chemical and biological systems. Carbon nanopipette (CNP) electrodes offer important advantages, including high sensitivity and improved analytical selectivity. They can serve as nanoreactors for sampling ultra-small solution volumes and studies of individual nanoparticles. CNPs were prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of carbon into the pre-pulled quartz capillaries. By changing pulling parameters and CVD conditions, we fabricated several types …


A Facile Strategy For Two-Step Fabrication Of Gold Nanoelectrode For In Vivo Dopamine Detection, Li-Hao Guan, Chao Wang, Wang Zhang, Yu-Lu Cai, Kai Li, Yu-Qing Lin Apr 2019

A Facile Strategy For Two-Step Fabrication Of Gold Nanoelectrode For In Vivo Dopamine Detection, Li-Hao Guan, Chao Wang, Wang Zhang, Yu-Lu Cai, Kai Li, Yu-Qing Lin

Journal of Electrochemistry

In vivo monitoring neurochemicals with microelectrode is invasive and the damage to brain tissue may inevitably cause disturbance signals physiologically to the measurement. It is of great importance to reduce the electrode size and to decrease the damage. This study demonstrates a novel nanoelectrode preparation methodology for in vivo monitoring dopamine (DA) fluctuation in the living brain of rats with high dependability. The fabrication process of the gold nanoelectrode involving a few minutes consists of only two steps: 1) growing gold nanoseeds on surface of tip of glassy capillary by ion sputtering; 2) wet depositing a continuous conductive gold film …