A voltammetric electronic tongue based on commercial screen-printed electrodes for the analysis of aminothiols by differential pulse voltammetry

A voltammetric electronic tongue has been designed as a proof of concept for the analysis of aminothiols by differential pulse voltammetry and has been tested in ternary mixtures of cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (hCys) and glutathione (GSH). It consists of three screen-printed electrodes of carbon, c...

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Autores: Pérez Ràfols, Clara, Gómez, Ana, Serrano i Plana, Núria, Díaz Cruz, José Manuel, Ariño Blasco, Cristina, Esteban i Cortada, Miquel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/139356
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/139356
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Voltametria
Electroquímica
Voltammetry
Electrochemistry
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Sumario:A voltammetric electronic tongue has been designed as a proof of concept for the analysis of aminothiols by differential pulse voltammetry and has been tested in ternary mixtures of cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (hCys) and glutathione (GSH). It consists of three screen-printed electrodes of carbon, carbon nanofibers and gold cured at low temperature. A preliminary calibration study carried out separately for each aminothiol confirmed that, working at an optimal pH value of 7.4, every electrode produces differentiated responses for every analyte (cross-response). As for the tongue, it was applied to calibration and validation mixtures of Cys, hCys and GSH and provided voltammograms that, baseline-corrected, normalized and combined in different ways were submitted to partial least squares (PLS) calibration. The calibration models produced good predictions of the concentrations of all three analytes, which suggest that the proposed voltammetric tongue improves the performance of a previous design based on linear sweep voltammetric measurements under acidic conditions.