Issue 23, 2015

Porous hollow CuS nanospheres with prominent peroxidase-like activity prepared in large scale by a one-pot controllable hydrothermal step

Abstract

CuS materials with peroxidase activity have been prepared but greatly limited by the large dosage and low peroxidase activity. In this paper, porous hollow CuS nanospheres with a variety of sizes were fabricated by one-pot method based on a facile template-assisted hydrothermal approach. The size of the porous hollow CuS nanospheres could be simply tuned by adjusting the molar ratios of reactants, the reaction temperature, and time. The as-prepared porous hollow CuS nanospheres were demonstrated to exhibit more prominent intrinsic peroxidase-like activity using TMB as a peroxidase substrate in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). This is a significant comparison to previous reports, demonstrating that the new developed synthetic porous hollow CuS nanospheres can be a new kind of candidate for peroxidase mimics, and the nanospheres are promising for applications in biosensors, environmental monitoring, and so on.

Graphical abstract: Porous hollow CuS nanospheres with prominent peroxidase-like activity prepared in large scale by a one-pot controllable hydrothermal step

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Nov 2014
Accepted
19 Jan 2015
First published
20 Jan 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 17458-17465

Author version available

Porous hollow CuS nanospheres with prominent peroxidase-like activity prepared in large scale by a one-pot controllable hydrothermal step

Q. W. Shu, C. M. Li, P. F. Gao, M. X. Gao and C. Z. Huang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 17458 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA14609C

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