Química Nova (Oct 2006)

Aplicações de nanoeletrodos como sensores na Química Analítica

  • Francisco Claudece Pereira,
  • Erwing Paiva Bergamo,
  • Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni,
  • Ligia Maria Moretto,
  • Paolo Ugo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-40422006000500027
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 5
pp. 1054 – 1060

Abstract

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Nanomaterials make up an emerging area in Chemistry and in the science of materials. This area constitutes the development of methods for synthesizing nanoscopic particles of a given material used for scientific investigation. Nanomaterials have a wide range of commercial possibilities and technological applications, including their use in analytical chemistry, as well as in electronics, optics, engineering, medicine, devices for liberation of drugs, bioencapsulation, among others. This paper presents a summary about nanoelectrodes, devices built from nanoparticles, which show great potential as electrochemical tools in many different types of analysis. The purpose of this paper is to review the construction methodologies of nanoelectrodes, and to point out their successful applicability in the various fields of immune assays and other analytical procedures with quantitative purposes.

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