This book presents an overview of the diverse applications of nanocarbon materials in electrochemical sensors and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the different nanocarbon materials currently used for electroanalysis. The book covers electrochemical sensing of small-sized molecules such as metal ions and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), as well as large biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, enzymes and proteins. Each chapter focuses heavily on chemistry aspects of the carbon-based nanomaterials, with a strong emphasis on the relationship between the carbon structures and interfaces, and electrochemical performance; the effect of surface nanostructures and surface chemistry on the sensing performance of nanocarbons is highlighted and discussed.
Topics covered include:
• Glucose sensing using nanocarbons
• Graphene electrochemical sensors and graphene for electrochemical biosensing
• Electrochemical and biochemical sensing using diamond nanowires
• Electrochemical sensing using diamond
• Electrochemical sensing of EDCs using porous carbons
• Carbon nanotubes for electrochemical sensing electrochemical biosensing
• Simulation of nanocarbon sensing
• Carbon thin films for DNA sensing
• Diamond dots for electrochemical sensing
This book is published as a title in the new Wiley book series ‘Nanocarbon Chemistry and Interfaces’. This series summarizes recent developments in the exciting and evolving field of carbon-based nanomaterials from a chemistry perspective, with a particular focus on surface chemistry and interface properties of nanocarbons.
