Gold-platinum alloy nanowires as highly sensitive materials for electrochemical detection of hydrogen peroxide.

The exploitation of the unique electrical properties of nanowires requires an effective assembly of nanowires as functional materials on a signal transduction platform. This paper describes a new strategy to assemble gold-platinum alloy nanowires on microelectrode devices and demonstrates the sensing characteristics to hydrogen peroxide. The alloy nanowires have been controllably electrodeposited on microelectrodes by applying an alternating current. The composition, morphology and alloying structures of the nanowires were characterized, revealing a single-phase alloy characteristic, highly monodispersed morphology, and controllable bimetallic compositions. The alloy nanowires were shown to exhibit electrocatalytic response characteristics for the detection of hydrogen peroxide, exhibiting a high sensitivity, low detection limit, and fast response time. The nanowire's response mechanism to hydrogen peroxide is also discussed in terms of the synergistic activity of the bimetallic binding sites, which has important implications for a better design of functional nanowires as sensing materials for a wide range of applications.

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