Electrosynthesis of non conventional-polymer nanotubules: a new nanostructured material for analytical applications

Abstract We investigated the influence of both electrolyte nature and concentration on the kinetics of electropolymerization of several monomers and on the resulting morphology of the produced nanotubules. The investigated monomers were: 1,2- and 1,4-diaminobenzene, 2,3- and 1,8-diaminonaphthalene, o-anisidine. Finally, the morphology and structure of the different template-synthesized nanostructured materials has been carefully analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Raman spectroscopy. The usefulness of these new polymer structures is demonstrated by the construction and assembling a chemical sensor for H2O2, whose detection is widely used in chemical-bio and immunosensors applications.

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