scholarly journals Paper-Based Screen-Printed Electrodes: A New Generation of Low-Cost Electroanalytical Platforms

Biosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estefanía Costa-Rama ◽  
María Teresa Fernández-Abedul

Screen-printed technology has helped considerably to the development of portable electrochemical sensors since it provides miniaturized but robust and user-friendly electrodes. Moreover, this technology allows to obtain very versatile transducers, not only regarding their design, but also their ease of modification. Therefore, in the last decades, the use of screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) has exponentially increased, with ceramic as the main substrate. However, with the growing interest in the use of cheap and widely available materials as the basis of analytical devices, paper or other low-cost flat materials have become common substrates for SPEs. Thus, in this revision, a comprehensive overview on paper-based SPEs used for analytical proposes is provided. A great variety of designs is reported, together with several examples to illustrate the main applications.

Biosensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Pérez-Fernández ◽  
Agustín Costa-García ◽  
Alfredo de la Escosura- Muñiz

Pesticides are among the most important contaminants in food, leading to important global health problems. While conventional techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and mass spectrometry (MS) have traditionally been utilized for the detection of such food contaminants, they are relatively expensive, time-consuming and labor intensive, limiting their use for point-of-care (POC) applications. Electrochemical (bio)sensors are emerging devices meeting such expectations, since they represent reliable, simple, cheap, portable, selective and easy to use analytical tools that can be used outside the laboratories by non-specialized personnel. Screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) stand out from the variety of transducers used in electrochemical (bio)sensing because of their small size, high integration, low cost and ability to measure in few microliters of sample. In this context, in this review article, we summarize and discuss about the use of SPEs as analytical tools in the development of (bio)sensors for pesticides of interest for food control. Finally, aspects related to the analytical performance of the developed (bio)sensors together with prospects for future improvements are discussed.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (17) ◽  
pp. 3884
Author(s):  
Loanda R. Cumba ◽  
Adalberto Camisasca ◽  
Silvia Giordani ◽  
Robert J. Forster

The properties of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) make them attractive electrode materials/additives for the development of low-cost, simple to use and highly sensitive Screen Printed Electrodes (SPEs). Here, we report the development of the first CNO-based ink for the fabrication of low-cost and disposable electrodes, leading to high-performance sensors. Achieving a true dispersion of CNOs is intrinsically challenging and a key aspect of the ink formulation. The screen-printing ink formulation is achieved by carefully selecting and optimising the conductive materials (graphite (GRT) and CNOs), the polymer binder, the organic solvent and the plasticiser. Our CNO/GRT-based screen-printed electrodes consist of an interconnected network of conducting carbon particles with a uniform distribution. Electrochemical studies show a heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant of 1.3 ± 0.7 × 10−3 cm·s−1 and a higher current density than the ferrocene/ferrocenium coupled to a commercial graphite SPEs. In addition, the CNO/GRT SPE can detect dopamine in the concentration range of 10.0–99.9 µM with a limit of detection of 0.92 µM (N = 3). They exhibit a higher analytical sensitivity than the commercial graphite-based SPE, with a 4-fold improvement observed. These results open up the possibility of using high-performing CNO-based SPEs for electrochemical applications including sensors, battery electrodes and electrocatalysis.


The Analyst ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (10) ◽  
pp. 3282-3288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobo Huang ◽  
Lin Ji ◽  
Bo Liang ◽  
Qingpeng Cao ◽  
Tingting Tu ◽  
...  

AuNPs decorated screen printed electrodes were used to detect DNA methylation.


Biosensors ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amadou Ndiaye ◽  
Sébastien Delile ◽  
Jérôme Brunet ◽  
Christelle Varenne ◽  
Alain Pauly

2021 ◽  
pp. 100056
Author(s):  
Jefferson H.S. Carvalho ◽  
Jeferson L. Gogola ◽  
Márcio F. Bergamini ◽  
Luiz H. Marcolino-Junior ◽  
Bruno C. Janegit

Linalool is a very important flavouring compound found in plants which is used in food and beverages. Linalool has been traditionally detected by analytical instruments such as gas chromatography (GC) coupled with mass spectroscopy(MS) which are not suitable for routine tests. For fast and low cost detection of chemical compounds electrochemial sensors are most suitable. Screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE) is one of the most popular and low cost device used for detection of chemical compounds. In this article we present the detection of linalool using a low cost preannodized commercial screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE). Traditionally electrochemical sensors are used in two terminal mode, however three terminal analysis of electrochemical sensors are found to be more rationale and accurate. In this paper we have analyzed detection of linalool by an advanced three terminal analysis. First we have performed cyclic voltammetry(CV) of the SPCE which showed clear oxidation peaks at different concentration of linalool. The input-output data of the CV has been used for analysis of the impedance of the SPCE.The impedance model of the SPCE was estimated by autoregressive moving average with exogenous inputs(ARMAX) modelling technique using the CV data. The three terminal impedance fitting revealed the values of electrical parameters and the parasitic elements at different linalool concentration. The stability limits of the SPCE was also determined from the pole-zero and Nyquist plots of the estimated models. Impedance behaviour to frequency of the SPCE was further analyzed by impedance plot( 𝒁 vs −𝒁 ′ ) from which we are able to relate the CV scan rate to the impedance of the SPCE. Finally the sensitivity and repeatability of the SPCE was determined using a measurement circuit.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 11517-11527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathy M. Salama ◽  
Khalid A. Attia ◽  
Ragab A. Said ◽  
Ahmed El-Olemy ◽  
Ahmed M. Abdel-raoof

In the present study, screen-printed electrodes unmodified and chemically modified with gold nanoparticles were used as sensitive electrochemical sensors for the determination of trazodone hydrochloride.


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