“…This fact could be attributed to the spherical shape of Ag-nanoseeds, which provides a larger surface area, as well as to the wetting behavior of the nanoparticle containing solutions that leads to a more homogeneously distributed layer. Nevertheless, in both cases, the obtained LODs are similar or even better than those provided in the literature using CMEs [28,29], in situ SbFE [7,30,31] or silver nanoparticles based electrodes [32] for Cu(II) and CMEs [28,33,34], SbFEs [6], BiFEs [3] or silver nanoparticles based electrodes [15,32] for Pb(II). It should also be pointed out that, although the linear range for Cu(II) is similar for both Ag-nanoseeds-SPCNFE and Ag-nanoprisms-SPCNFE, in the case of Pb(II), the electrode surface is easily saturated when the Ag-nanoprisms-SPCNFE is used, which results in a significantly narrower linear range.…”