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A liquid-junction-free reference electrode based on a PEDOT solid-contact and ionogel capping membrane

Zuliani, Claudio, Matzeu, Giusy and Diamond, Dermot orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2944-4839 (2014) A liquid-junction-free reference electrode based on a PEDOT solid-contact and ionogel capping membrane. Talanta, 125 . pp. 58-64. ISSN 0039-9140

Abstract
Liquid-junction-free reference electrodes were prepared on screen printed substrates using poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) as solid-contact and novel ionogels as capping membrane. The chemico-physical properties of the PEDOT layer were tuned by changing the electropolymerization media and electrodeposition technique. Particularly, electrodepositing PEDOT films potentiostatically or potentiodynamically impacted on the traces of the potential of the electrodes during the conditioning step. In addition, the choice of the capping membrane formulation, e.g., acrylate monomers, ionic liquid, cross-linkers and photo-initiators, was adjusted to obtain electrodes with properties almost equivalent of a standard reference electrode. Thus, calibration plots of Na+ ion-selective electrodes against the optimized solid-contact ionogel reference electrodes (SCI-REs) or against a double-liquid junction Ag/AgCl electrode did not present any significant difference. Such SCI-REs may provide an effective route to the generation of future low-cost components for potentiometric sensing strips.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:reference electrode; solid-contact; ionic liquid; ionogel; screen printing; poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT); Ion-Selective Electrode (ISEs)
Subjects:Physical Sciences > Chemistry
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR)
Publisher:Elsevier
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2014.02.018
Copyright Information:© 2014 Elsevier
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:19896
Deposited On:22 Apr 2014 08:45 by Giuseppina Matzeu . Last Modified 27 Sep 2019 10:09
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