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Gold nanoparticle based optical and electrochemical sensing of dopamine

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This review (with 110 refs.) gives an overview on the progress that has been made in the past few years on the use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for use in sensors and analytical tools for the determination of dopamine (DA). Both AuNPs and their composites with other organic and inorganic materials including noble metals are treated. Following an overview on the clinical significance of DA, we discuss the various analytical methods that are (a) electrochemiluminescence (ECL); (b) surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS); (c) colorimetric probing and visual detection; and (d) the large class of electrochemical sensors. Subsections cover sensors based on plain AuNPs, bimetallic NPs, AuNP-metal@metal oxide nanocomposites, AuNP nanocomposites with organic polymers, AuNP nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes or with graphene, and finally sensors based on ternary materials containing AuNPs. The review ends with a conclusion on current challenges of sensors for DA and an outlook on future trends.

We review the recent progress in sensing dopamine based on AuNPs and its nanocomposites including bimetallic nanoparticles, AuNPs-/metal oxide, AuNPs-polymer, AuNPs-carbon nanotubes, AuNPs-graphene and ternary materials using different types of sensing techniques such as electrochemiluminescence (ECL), colorimetric, surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and electrochemical techniques.

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  1. Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Norazriena Yusoff, Alagarsamy Pandikumar & Nay Ming Huang

  2. Centre for Photoelectrochemistry, School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 625021, India

    Ramasamy Ramaraj

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Hong Ngee Lim

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Yusoff, N., Pandikumar, A., Ramaraj, R. et al. Gold nanoparticle based optical and electrochemical sensing of dopamine. Microchim Acta 182, 2091–2114 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-015-1609-2

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