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A biomass-derived porous carbon-based nanocomposite for voltammetric determination of quercetin

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Porous carbon was prepared from wheat flour by alkali treatment and carbonization. The resulting biomass-derived porous carbon (BPC) was employed to prepare a Pt-Au-BPC nanocomposite by a hydrothermal method. The material was then placed on the surface of a carbon ionic liquid electrode (CILE). The Pt-Au-BPC was characterized by SEM, XPS, and the modified CILE by electrochemical methods. They revealed a porous structure, a large specific surface with high conductivity. Pt-Au-BPC/CILE was applied to the sensitive determination of quercetin. Electrochemical response was studied by cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). Under optimized experimental conditions, the oxidation peak current (measured at 0.48 V vs. Ag/AgCl by DPV) increases linearly in the 0.15 to 6.0 μM and in the 10.0 to 25.0 μM quercetin concentration range. The detection limit is 50.0 nM (at 3σ). The Pt-Au-BPC/CILE was applied to the direct determination of quercetin in ginkgo tablets sample and gave satisfactory results.

A Pt-Au-BPC nanocomposite modified carbon ionic liquid electrode was applied to differential pulse voltammetric determination of quercetin. BPC: biomass-derived porous carbon.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province of China (2017CXTD007), the Key Science and Technology Program of Haikou City (2017042), Graduate Student Innovation Research Project of Hainan Province (Hys2018-212) and the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province (2019-003).

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    Juan Liu, Wenju Weng & Guangjiu Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaobao Li, Hui Xie, Guiling Luo, Yanyan Niu, Shuyao Zhang & Wei Sun

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Liu, J., Li, X., Weng, W. et al. A biomass-derived porous carbon-based nanocomposite for voltammetric determination of quercetin. Microchim Acta 186, 783 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-3953-0

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