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    Microwave assisted synthesis of rGO/ZnO composites for non-enzymatic glucose sensing and supercapacitor applications
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2017) Moolayadukkam, M.; Dhanush, S.; Rossignol, F.; Nagaraja, H.S.
    Zinc oxide (ZnO) and Graphene Oxide (GO) are known to show good electrochemical properties. In this paper, rGO/ZnO nanocomposites have been synthesised using a simple microwave assisted method. The nanocomposites are characterized using XRD, Raman, SEM and TEM. XRD reveals the wurtzite structure of ZnO and TEM shows the heterogeneous nucleation of ZnO nanocrystals anchored onto graphene sheets. The electrochemical properties of the rGO/ZnO nanocomposite enhanced significantly for applications in glucose sensors and supercapacitors. The non-enzymatic glucose sensor of this nanocomposite tested using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometry, exhibits high sensitivity (39.78 mA cm?2 mM?1) and a lower detection limit of 0.2 nM. The supercapacitor electrode of rGO/ZnO nanocomposite exhibits a significant increase in specific capacitance. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l.
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    Synthesis and electrochemical properties of silver dendrites and silver dendrites/rGO composite for applications in paracetamol sensing
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2018) Dhanush, S.; Moolayadukkam, M.; Bindu, K.; Chowdhury, P.; Nagaraja, H.S.
    Electrochemical sensors are one of the important applications of electrochemistry. In this paper, synthesis, characterization and application of Silver Dendrites and Silver Dendrites/rGO sensors for simple and fast determination of Paracetamol are described. Silver dendrites and their composite with graphene oxide were synthesized by galvanic replacement method. The synthesized samples were characterized by XRD, SEM and TEM. XRD reveals the FCC structure of silver and TEM images show the formation of dendritic silver wrapped in the graphene sheets. The Electrochemical paracetamol sensing properties of these samples were tested using cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The silver dendrites exhibit a sensitivity of 2.807 × 105?A/mM/g and a lower detection limit of 2.5 ?M, whereas, the composite with graphene oxide exhibits a high sensitivity of 2.511 × 106?A /mM/g with a lower detection limit of 0.025 ?M. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd