bimetallic pt-ru nanoparticle catalyst for hydrogen peroxide detection双金属pt-ru纳米催化剂过氧化氢检测.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 2011, Article ID 506862, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/506862 Research Article Bimetallic Pt-Ru Nanoparticle Catalyst for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection Metini Janyasupab,1 Yuan Zhang,2 Po-Yuan Lin,3 Brandon Bartling,1 Jiaqiang Xu,2 and Chung-Chiun Liu1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA 2 Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China 3 Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Metini Janyasupab, mxj52@ Received 10 June 2011; Revised 3 August 2011; Accepted 4 August 2011 Academic Editor: Charles M. Lukehart Copyright © 2011 Metini Janyasupab et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A bimetallic Pt-Ru nanoparticle catalyst was prepared and characterized for the enhancement of hydrogen peroxide (H O ) 2 2 detection in biosensing applications. The particles were synthesized via sodium borohydride reduction, with low heat treatment, and characterized by TEM and HRTEM. The chemical composition analyses were performed by EDX. The bimetallic particle diameters ranged from 2 to 12 nm, with an average of 4.5 nm. The Pt-Ru catalyst exhibited an improved performance at low overpotential (+0.2 V versus Ag/AgCl reference electrode) in H2 O2 detection, suggesting a sensitivity value of 7