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Simultaneous determination of 4-aminophenol and paracetamol based on CS-Ni nanocomposite-modified screen-printed disposable electrodes (2023)
Journal Article

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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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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article
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.

2D-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Screen-Printed Bulk-Modified Electrochemical Platforms Explored towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions (2022)
Journal Article
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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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)
Journal Article
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.

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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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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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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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.