Recent Trends on Electrochemical Sensors Based on Ordered Mesoporous Carbon

Abstract

The past decade has seen an increasing number of extensive studies devoted to the exploitation of ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) materials in electrochemistry, notably in the fields of energy and sensing. The present review summarizes the recent achievements made in field of electroanalysis using electrodes modified with such nanomaterials. On the basis of comprehensive tables, the interest in OMC for designing electrochemical sensors is illustrated through the various applications developed to date. They include voltammetric detection after preconcentration, electrocatalysis (intrinsically due to OMC or based on suitable catalysts deposited onto OMC), electrochemical biosensors, as well as electrochemiluminescence and potentiometric sensors.

Sensitive Voltammetric Amoxicillin Sensor Based on TiO2 Sol Modified by CMK‐3‐type Mesoporous Carbon and Gold Ganoparticles

“…The nanocomposites combining gold nanoparticles and carbon materials are tested due to their unique electrocatalytic properties, good stability, quantized charging characteristics and biocompability . Besides carbon nanotubes and fullerenes , graphene , ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC), such as CMK‐3 and CMK‐1, were used as components of novel sensors and biosensors characterized by good electronic conductivity, highly defined pore size distribution, large pore volume, high specific surface area and enhanced mechanical stability .…”

Trends and Advances in Electrochemiluminescence Nanobiosensors

“…CNMs and CNSMs are attractive avenue as sensor components due to their exceptional electrical, thermal, chemical and mechanical properties, which render sensors more reliable, accurate and fast. Depending on the types of target molecules, different approaches can be taken in order to design a sensor device, making use of either zero-dimensional (carbon nano-onions) or one-dimensional (CNTs), or two-dimensional (graphene) or three-dimensional ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs) or CNMs or CNSMs as NCs in order to fabricate a much improved analytical ECL-based nanobiosensors [ 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 ]. Presently, carbon nano-onions have emerged as the popular choice for the fabrication of sensitive and selective nanobiosensor due to their high surface area-to-volume ratio that provides a large surface area for biorecognition element binding, as well as improve electronic conductivity [ 90 ].…”

“…OMCs constitute a subclass of 3D nanostructured porous CNMs or CNSMs. These materials have recently attracted great attention of researchers in electroanalytical applications for the fabrication of highly sensitive ECL nanobiosensors due to their good electronic conductivity, chemical inertness, great porosity (high specific surface area, large pore volume and size) and widely open ordered structure made of uniform and tunable pore sizes, which ensure fast mass transport rates [ 62 , 93 ].…”

“…Despite these favorable characteristics, incorporation of novel NMs, NSMs, MNCs or polymer-based nanocomposite in biosensors are still required in order to further improve the sensitivity and the long-term stability of ECL nanobiosensors [ 7 ]. Currently, only very few label-free ECL-based nanobiosensors exploited polymer-based nanocomposite (such as: polyethylene glycol, chitosan and nafion), whereas materials such as MNCs, buckyballs, OMCs, carbon nanofibers, CNOs or SWCNTs have not been heavily utilized in the preparation of nanocomposites to modify the sensing platform of ECL-based nanobiosensors, which could increase the ECL signal intensity [ 17 , 84 , 93 ]. Similarly, disposable screen-printed electrodes and paper-based electrodes have not been employed as frequently in the preparation of nanocomposites in ECL nanobiosensors for point-of-care devices.…”

Ordered Mesoporous Carbon/Poly (2‐Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate/Ag Nanoparticle Composite Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode; an Amplified Sensor for Simultaneous Determination of Acetaminophen and Domperidone

“…Ordered mesoporous carbons have received substantial attention because of their large pore volume, good uniform conductivity, narrow pore size distribution, high specific surface area, and chemical inertness. Furthermore, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 they have low background current and a wide window of potential that makes them suitable for electroanalytical and catalytic applications [26,27].…”