Fabrication of polyaniline/carbon nanotube composite modified electrode and its electrocatalytic property to the reduction of nitrite

Abstract A polyaniline (PANI)/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) composite modified electrode was fabricated by galvanostatic electropolymerization of aniline on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs)-modified gold electrode. The electrode thus prepared exhibits enhanced electrocatalytic behavior to the reduction of nitrite and facilitates the detection of nitrite at an applied potential of 0.0 V. Although the amperometric responses toward nitrite at MWNTs/gold and PANI/gold electrodes have also been observed in the experiments, these responses are far less than that obtained at PANI/MWNTs/gold electrode. The effects of electropolymerization time, MWNTs concentration and pH value of the detection solution on the current response of the composite modified electrode toward sodium nitrite, were investigated and discussed. A linear range from 5.0 × 10 −6 to 1.5 × 10 −2  M for the detection of sodium nitrite has been observed at the PANI/MWNTs modified electrode with a sensitivity of 719.2 mA M −1  cm −2 and a detection limit of 1.0 μM based on a signal-to-noise ratio of 3.

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