Electrochemical characteristics of conductive carbon cement as matrix for chemically modified electrodes Huang, X.; Pot, J.J.; Kok, W.T. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractConductive carbon cement (CCC) was evaluated as matrix material for the preparation of electrodes bulk-modified with electrocatalysts. For pure CCC electrodes the background current characteristics were examined. In acidic or neutral phosphate buffers the useful electrode potential range was from -0.3 to + 1.0 V vs. SCE, while in 0.1 mol l-' NaOH it was from -0.3 to + 0.7 V. The electrochemical reversibility of CCC electrodes was examined by measuring the standard rate constants for the reduction of hexacyanoferrate( III) and the oxidation of hydroquinone, using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and rotating disk experiments. The reversibility of a CCC electrode was comparable with that of a freshly polished glassy carbon electrode and better than that of carbon paste electrodes. CCC was used as matrix for the preparation of electrodes bulk-modified with cuprous oxide and cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPC). With a C&O-CCC electrode the oxidation potential of glucose, which shows sluggish kinetics at unmodified carbon electrodes, was strongly reduced. The kinetics of the mediated glucose oxidation has been studied with a rotating disk electrode. It was shown that at glucose concentrations higher than approximately 1 mmol 1-l the electrochemical regeneration of the catalyst becomes rate-determining. The Cu@-CCC modified electrode has been applied with a constant potential in flow-injection analysis for the determination of glucose. The long-term stability of the electrode was studied; repeated injections of a glucose solution during a period of 6 h yielded a relative standard deviation of the peak height of 1.8% (n = 57). In CV experiments the electrocatalytic activity of CoPC was shown for the oxidation of various compounds such as penicillamine, hydrazine and bile acids. Application of the CoPC-CCC electrode for the detection of bile acids in flow-through detection with a constant or pulsed potential failed, due to a rapid deactivation of the electrode.

Determination of sugars by liquid chromatography and amperometric detection with a cuprous oxide modified electrode Huang, X.; Pot, J.J.; Kok, W.T. Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. SummaryA chemically modified electrode was applied as a working electrode for the amperometric detection of sugars in liquid chromatography. A mixture of cuprous oxide and conductive carbon cement was used as electrode material. Cuprous oxide acted as a catalyst for the oxidation of sugars. Cyclic voltammetry was used to examine the oxidation of the sugars at the electrode surface. The stability and sensitivity of a cuprous oxide/conductive carbon cement (20/80 %, w/w) electrode were tested in flow injection analysis experiments. For liquid chromatography, sugars were separated on an ion-exclusion column with 0.01 M H2SO4 as mobile phase. After the separation, 0.2 M NaOH was added post-column and the sugars were determined at 550 mV vs. Ag/AgC1. Calibration was linear in the range of 10 -6. 10 -3 M with limits of detection of approximately 1 9 10 .6 M. The application of the modified electrode for the determination of sugars in fruit beverages and dairy products following chromatographic separation is shown.