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One-pot synthesis of Fe3O4/polypyrrole/graphene oxide nanocomposites for electrochemical sensing of hydrazine

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The authors describe the synthesis of a nanocomposite consisting of Fe3O4 nanoparticles, polypyrrole and graphene oxide (Fe3O4/PPy/GO), and its application to voltammetric sensing of hydrazine. The nanocomposite can be synthesized by combining chemical oxidative polymerization and co-precipitation. Fe(III) ion is employed as both the oxidant for pyrrole and as a precursor of Fe3O4. The nanocomposite was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). TEM observations revealed that large numbers of Fe3O4 are homogeneously and densely distributed. The Fe3O4/PPy/GO composite was placed in a glassy carbon electrode, and the resulting sensor, best operated at around 0.2 V (vs. SCE) exhibited excellent response to dissolved hydrazine over the 5.0 μM to 1.3 mM concentration range, a sensitivity of 449.7 μA mM−1 cm−2 and a low detection limit of 1.4 μM (at an S/N ratio of 3).

Fe3O4/polypyrrole/graphene oxide nanocomposites were synthesized through one-pot process and then the nanocomposites were used for fabricating a nonenzymatic sensor for hydrazine.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this project by the National Science Fund of China (No. 21275116, No. 21575113), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20126101110013), the Scientific Research Foundation of Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory (14JS094, 15JS100, 16JS099).

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    Ziyin Yang, Qinglin Sheng, Sai Zhang, Xiaohui Zheng & Jianbin Zheng

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Yang, Z., Sheng, Q., Zhang, S. et al. One-pot synthesis of Fe3O4/polypyrrole/graphene oxide nanocomposites for electrochemical sensing of hydrazine. Microchim Acta 184, 2219–2226 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-017-2197-0

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