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Simultaneous determination of 4-aminophenol and paracetamol based on CS-Ni nanocomposite-modified screen-printed disposable electrodes (2023)
Journal Article
Abdi, S., Chelaghmia, M., Kihal, R., Banks, C., Ferrari, A., Fisli, H., …Benhamza, M. (2023). Simultaneous determination of 4-aminophenol and paracetamol based on CS-Ni nanocomposite-modified screen-printed disposable electrodes. Chemical Monthly / Monatshefte für Chemie, 154, 563-575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-023-03062-7

In the present work, chitosan-coated nickel nanoparticles (CS-Ni) were successfully prepared onto screen-printed electrode (SPE) by electrodeposition method with the assistance of an anionic surfactant of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) for the individu... Read More about Simultaneous determination of 4-aminophenol and paracetamol based on CS-Ni nanocomposite-modified screen-printed disposable electrodes.

Low-cost, facile droplet modification of screen-printed arrays for internally validated electrochemical detection of serum procalcitonin (2023)
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de Oliveira, P., Crapnell, R., Ferrari, A., Wuamprakhon, P., Hurst, N., Dempsey-Hibbert, N., …Banks, C. (2023). Low-cost, facile droplet modification of screen-printed arrays for internally validated electrochemical detection of serum procalcitonin. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 228, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2023.115220

This manuscript presents the design and facile production of screen-printed arrays (SPAs) for the internally validated determination of raised levels of serum procalcitonin (PCT). The screen-printing methodology produced SPAs with six individual work... Read More about Low-cost, facile droplet modification of screen-printed arrays for internally validated electrochemical detection of serum procalcitonin.

Functionalized screen-printed electrodes for the thermal detection of Escherichia coli in dairy products (2022)
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Arreguin-Campos, R., Frigoli, M., Caldara, M., Crapnell, R., Ferrari, A., Banks, C., …van Grinsvan, B. (2023). Functionalized screen-printed electrodes for the thermal detection of Escherichia coli in dairy products. Food Chemistry, 404, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.134653

Accurate and fast on-site detection of harmful microorganisms in food products is a key preventive step to avoid food-borne illness and product recall. In this study, screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) were functionalized via a facile strategy with sur... Read More about Functionalized screen-printed electrodes for the thermal detection of Escherichia coli in dairy products.

Exploration of defined 2-dimensional working electrode shapes through additive manufacturing (2022)
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Ferrari, A., Hurst, N., Bernalte, E., Crapnell, R., Whittingham, M., Brownson, D., & Banks, C. (2022). Exploration of defined 2-dimensional working electrode shapes through additive manufacturing. Analyst, 22, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2AN01412B

In this work, the electrochemical response of different morphologies (shapes) and dimensions of additively manufactured (3D-printing) carbon black (CB)/poly-lactic acid (PLA) electrodes are reported. The working electrodes (WE) are printed using stan... Read More about Exploration of defined 2-dimensional working electrode shapes through additive manufacturing.

Sensing Materials: Carbon Materials (2022)
Book Chapter
Ferrari, A., Crapnell, R., & Banks, C. (2022). Sensing Materials: Carbon Materials. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822548-6.00082-0

Carbon materials, from their traditional forms such as graphite or carbon black, to the more novel forms such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, graphene oxide (GO), and their variants have been used extensively transducer elements for sensing pla... Read More about Sensing Materials: Carbon Materials.

The effect of water ingress on additively manufactured electrodes (2022)
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Williams, R., Brine, T., Crapnell, R., Ferrari, A., & Banks, C. (2022). The effect of water ingress on additively manufactured electrodes. #Journal not on list, 20, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00707J

Additive Manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, is becoming increasingly popular in the field of electrochemistry since it allows affordable, on-demand production of bespoke devices. Provided a suitably conductive polymer composite mater... Read More about The effect of water ingress on additively manufactured electrodes.

Electroanalytical Overview: The Detection of Chromium (2022)
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Ferrari, A., Crapnell, R., Adarakatti, P., Suma, B., & Banks, C. (2022). Electroanalytical Overview: The Detection of Chromium. #Journal not on list, 4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snr.2022.100116

Chromium exerts serious damage to human beings and to aquatic life and is one of the most common environmental contaminant and possess toxicity when present above threshold limits. In comparison with the traditional quantification methods such as ato... Read More about Electroanalytical Overview: The Detection of Chromium.

2D-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Screen-Printed Bulk-Modified Electrochemical Platforms Explored towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions (2022)
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Khan, A., Ferrari, A., Hughes, J., Smith, G., Banks, C., & Rowley-Neale, S. (2022). 2D-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Screen-Printed Bulk-Modified Electrochemical Platforms Explored towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions. Sensors, 22(9), https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093330

A low-cost, scalable and reproducible approach for the mass production of screen-printed electrode (SPE) platforms that have varying percentage mass incorporations of 2D hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN) (2D-hBN/SPEs) is demonstrated herein. These nov... Read More about 2D-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Screen-Printed Bulk-Modified Electrochemical Platforms Explored towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions.

Electroanalytical Overview: Screen-printed electrochemical sensing platforms for the detection of vital cardiac, cancer and inflammatory biomarkers (2022)
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Crapnell, R., Ferrari, A., Dempsey, N., & Banks, C. (2022). Electroanalytical Overview: Screen-printed electrochemical sensing platforms for the detection of vital cardiac, cancer and inflammatory biomarkers. #Journal not on list, 1, 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SD00041A

Biomarkers play an important and irrefutable role in the screening, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of a wide variety of human diseases. As these biomarkers inevitably feature more and more prominently in the patient care pathway, there is a grow... Read More about Electroanalytical Overview: Screen-printed electrochemical sensing platforms for the detection of vital cardiac, cancer and inflammatory biomarkers.

Electrochemical Improvements Can Be Realized via Shortening the Length of Screen-Printed Electrochemical Platforms (2021)
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Whittingham, M., Hurst, N., Crapnell, R., Ferrari, A., Blanco, E., Davies, T., & Banks, C. (2021). Electrochemical Improvements Can Be Realized via Shortening the Length of Screen-Printed Electrochemical Platforms. Analytical Chemistry, 93(49), 16481–16488. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03601

Screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) are ubiquitous within the field of electrochemistry and are commonplace within the arsenal of electrochemists. Their popularity stems from their reproducibility, versatility, and extremely low-cost production, allowin... Read More about Electrochemical Improvements Can Be Realized via Shortening the Length of Screen-Printed Electrochemical Platforms.

Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety (2021)
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Ferrari, A., Crapnell, R., & Banks, C. (2021). Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety. Biosensors, 11(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11080291

Robust, reliable, and affordable analytical techniques are essential for screening and monitoring food and water safety from contaminants, pathogens, and allergens that might be harmful upon consumption. Recent advances in decentralised, miniaturised... Read More about Electroanalytical Overview: Electrochemical Sensing Platforms for Food and Drink Safety.

MoO2 Nanowire Electrochemically Decorated Graphene Additively Manufactured Supercapacitor Platforms (2021)
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Ferrari, A., Pimlott, J., Down, M., Rowley-Neale, S., & Banks, C. (2021). MoO2 Nanowire Electrochemically Decorated Graphene Additively Manufactured Supercapacitor Platforms. #Journal not on list, 11(23), https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202100433

Additively manufactured (AM) supercapacitor platforms are fabricated from bespoke filaments, which are comprised of electro-conductive graphene (20 wt%) incorporated polylactic acid (80 wt%), via fused deposition modeling and denoted as G/AMEs. The G... Read More about MoO2 Nanowire Electrochemically Decorated Graphene Additively Manufactured Supercapacitor Platforms.

Toward the Rapid Diagnosis of Sepsis: Detecting Interleukin-6 in Blood Plasma Using Functionalized Screen-Printed Electrodes with a Thermal Detection Methodology (2021)
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Crapnell, R., Jesadabundit, W., Ferrari, A., Dempsey-Hibbert, N., Peeters, M., Tridente, A., …Banks, C. (2021). Toward the Rapid Diagnosis of Sepsis: Detecting Interleukin-6 in Blood Plasma Using Functionalized Screen-Printed Electrodes with a Thermal Detection Methodology. Analytical Chemistry, 93(14), 5931–5938. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00417

This paper reports the detection of the inflammatory and sepsis-related biomarker, interleukin-6 (IL-6), in human blood plasma using functionalized screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) in conjunction with a thermal detection methodology, termed heat-tran... Read More about Toward the Rapid Diagnosis of Sepsis: Detecting Interleukin-6 in Blood Plasma Using Functionalized Screen-Printed Electrodes with a Thermal Detection Methodology.

Screen-Printed Electrodes: Transitioning the laboratory in-to-the field (2021)
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Ferrari, A., Rowley-Neale, S., & Banks, C. (2021). Screen-Printed Electrodes: Transitioning the laboratory in-to-the field. Talanta, 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talo.2021.100032

This short article overviews the use of screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) in the field of electroanalysis and compares their application against traditional laboratory based analytical techniques. Electroanalysis coupled with SPEs can offer low-cost,... Read More about Screen-Printed Electrodes: Transitioning the laboratory in-to-the field.

Recent advances in 2D hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN) applied as the basis of electrochemical sensing platforms (2020)
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Ferrari, A., Rowley-Neale, S., & Banks, C. (2020). Recent advances in 2D hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN) applied as the basis of electrochemical sensing platforms. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 413, 663-672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-03068-8

2D hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN) is a lesser utilised material than other 2D counterparts in electrochemistry due to initial reports of it being non-conductive. As we will demonstrate in this review, this common misconception is being challenged,... Read More about Recent advances in 2D hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN) applied as the basis of electrochemical sensing platforms.

Screen-printed electrochemical-based sensor for taxifolin determination in edible peanut oils (2020)
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Pierini, G., Maccio, S., Robledo, S., Ferrari, A., Banks, C., Fernandez, H., & Zon, M. (2020). Screen-printed electrochemical-based sensor for taxifolin determination in edible peanut oils. Microchemical Journal, 159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2020.105442

An electrochemical method for the determination of Taxifolin (Tx) in peanut oil samples using screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) is reported for the first time. The different electroanalytical parameters such as scan rate, supporting electrolyte, pH an... Read More about Screen-printed electrochemical-based sensor for taxifolin determination in edible peanut oils.

Platinum nanoparticle decorated vertically aligned graphene screen-printed electrodes: electrochemical characterisation and exploration towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (2020)
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Scremin, J., dos Santos, I., Hughes, J., Ferrari, A., Valderrama, E., Zheng, W., …Banks, C. (2020). Platinum nanoparticle decorated vertically aligned graphene screen-printed electrodes: electrochemical characterisation and exploration towards the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nanoscale, 35, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR04336B

We present the fabrication of platinum (Pt0) nanoparticle (ca. 3 nm average diameter) decorated vertically aligned graphene (VG) screen-printed electrodes (Pt/VG-SPE) and explore their physicochemical characteristics and electrocatalytic activity tow... Read More about Platinum nanoparticle decorated vertically aligned graphene screen-printed electrodes: electrochemical characterisation and exploration towards the hydrogen evolution reaction.

Imaging the Reactivity and Width of Graphene’s Boundary Region (2020)
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Al Salem, H., Al-Goul, S., Ferrari, A., Brownson, D., Velarde, L., & Koehler, S. (2020). Imaging the Reactivity and Width of Graphene’s Boundary Region. Chemical Communications, 67, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC02675A

The reactivity of graphene at its boundary region has been imaged using non-linear spectroscopy to address the controversy whether the terraces of graphene or its edges are more reactive. Graphene was functionalised with phenyl groups, and we subsequ... Read More about Imaging the Reactivity and Width of Graphene’s Boundary Region.

Recent advances in portable heavy metal electrochemical sensing platforms (2020)
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Ferrari, A., Carrington, P., Rowley-Neale, S., & Banks, C. (2020). Recent advances in portable heavy metal electrochemical sensing platforms. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW00407C

In 2020, the new European Drinking Water Directive will be updated to include new drinking-water safety parameters. These will introduce reduced thresholds for the presence of heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants in domestic drinking water... Read More about Recent advances in portable heavy metal electrochemical sensing platforms.

The influence of lateral flake size in Graphene/Graphite paste electrodes: an electroanalytical investigation (2020)
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Ferrari, A., Elbardisy, H., Silva, V., Belal, T., Talaat, W., Daabees, H., …Brownson, D. (2020). The influence of lateral flake size in Graphene/Graphite paste electrodes: an electroanalytical investigation. Analytical Methods, 2133-2142. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0AY00169D

We report the electroanalytical properties of graphene and graphite paste electrodes comprising varying lateral flake sizes. The fabricated electrodes are first electrochemically validated using a standard redox probe prior to the influence of their... Read More about The influence of lateral flake size in Graphene/Graphite paste electrodes: an electroanalytical investigation.