ascorbic-acid and nickel-monoxide

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of nickel oxide nanomaterial (nano-NiO) on goji berry (Lycium barbarum L.) shoots grown under in vitro conditions and to determine if the nanomaterial was more harmful than its bulk counterpart, nickel (II) sulphate (NiSO

Topics: Antioxidants; Ascorbate Peroxidases; Ascorbic Acid; Catalase; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Glutathione; Hydrogen Peroxide; Lipid Peroxidation; Lycium; Metal Nanoparticles; Nickel; Oxidative Stress; Plant Shoots; Reactive Oxygen Species; Superoxide Dismutase; Superoxides

A novel theory of employing interface potential barriers as a controllabe tuning factor for electrochemical detection is proposed. The 3D NiO/PANI/ZnO hierarchical heterostructure is fabricated by thermal oxidation, electropolymerization and electrodeposition. The 3D NiO/PANI/ZnO heterostructure is then chose as a model for electrochemical detection of dopamine, uric acid and ascorbic acid. The p-n and p-p junction interface potential barriers are employed as tuning factors to achieve high selectivity and sensitivity. Our results demonstrate the electrochemical response to different targets can be controllable enhanced or weakened by rational design of interface potential barriers. The potential barrier height Φp-n is an enhanced tuning factor, and Φp-p is a selective tuning factor. We afford a controllable adjustive approach to achieve desired selectivity and sensitivity.

Topics: Aniline Compounds; Ascorbic Acid; Biosensing Techniques; Dopamine; Electrochemical Techniques; Electrodes; Electroplating; Nanostructures; Nickel; Uric Acid; Zinc Oxide

We report a seed-mediated hydrothermal growth of free-standing nickel hydroxide [Ni(OH)(2)] and nickel oxide (NiO) nanoflake arrays and their implementation as electrodes for non-enzymatic glucose sensors. Ni(OH)(2) nanoflakes were converted into porous NiO nanoflakes upon thermal annealing in air at temperatures of 300 °C or above. NiO nanoflake-arrayed sensors achieve an excellent glucose sensitivity of ∼8500 μA cm(-2) mM(-1) and a low detection limit of 1.2 μM glucose at an applied bias of 0.5 V vs. Ag/AgCl. The fabrication of the nanoflake electrode avoids the use of polymer binders representing additional advantage over the conventional powder based glucose sensors. Furthermore, they show good specificity to glucose in the presence of ascorbic acid, d-lactose and d-fructose.

Topics: Ascorbic Acid; Electrochemical Techniques; Electrodes; Fructose; Glucose; Lactose; Nickel; Polymers

This article reports on a novel microsensor for amperometric measurement of ascorbic acid (AA) under acidic conditions (pH 2) based on a carbon fiber microelectrode (CFME) modified with nickel oxide and ruthenium hexacyanoferrate (NiO-RuHCF). This sensing layer was deposited electrochemically in a two-step procedure involving an initial galvanostatic NiO deposition followed by a potentiodynamic RuHCF deposition from solutions containing the precursor salts. Several important parameters were examined to characterize and optimize the NiO-RuHCF sensing layer with respect to its current response to AA by using cyclic voltammetry, and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy methods. With the NiO-RuHCF coated CFME, the AA oxidation potential under acidic conditions was shifted to a less positive value for about 0.2 V (E(p) of ca. 0.23 V vs. Ag/AgCl) as compared to a bare CFME, which greatly improves the electrochemical selectivity. Using the hydrodynamic amperometry mode, the current vs. AA concentration in 0.01 M HCl, at a selected operating potential of 0.30 V, was found to be linear over a wide range of 10-1610 μM (n=22, r=0.999) with a calculated limit of detection of 1.0 μM. The measurement repeatability was satisfactory with a relative standard deviation (r.s.d.) ranging from 4% to 5% (n=6), depending on the AA concentration, and with a sensor-to-sensor reproducibility (r.s.d.) of 6.9% at 100 μM AA. The long-term reproducibility, using the same microsensor for 112 consecutive measurements of 20 μM AA over 11 h of periodic probing sets over 4 days, was 16.1% r.s.d., thus showing very good stability at low AA levels and suitability for use over a prolonged period of time. Moreover, using the proposed microsensor, additionally coated with a protective cellulose acetate membrane, the calibration plot obtained in the extremely complex matrix of real undiluted gastric juice was linear from 10 to 520 μM (n=14, r=0.998). These results demonstrated the unique featuring of the proposed NiO-RuHCF microsensor under acidic conditions with enhanced sensitivity and stability and proved its promising potentiality for direct amperometric probing of AA at physiological levels in real gastric juice environments.

Topics: Ascorbic Acid; Biosensing Techniques; Calibration; Carbon; Carbon Fiber; Cellulose; Electrochemical Techniques; Ferrocyanides; Gastric Juice; Humans; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Limit of Detection; Microelectrodes; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; Nickel; Reproducibility of Results; Ruthenium Compounds; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Female albino Wistar rats were exposed to less than 5 microns particles separated from nickel refinery waste. The generated aerosol of 50 mg m-3 mainly consisted of metal oxides, the most toxic being NiO and Cr2O3. The exposure of 5 h per day, 5 days per week, lasted for 4 weeks or 4 months. At the end of the exposure period the amounts of pulmonary surfactant and ascorbic acid were estimated in both exposed and control rats. The amount of pulmonary surfactant was elevated after both exposure times, while ascorbic acid increased significantly (P less than 0.02) only after 4 weeks of exposure.

Topics: Administration, Inhalation; Aerosols; Animals; Ascorbic Acid; Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid; Dust; Female; Iron; Lung; Nickel; Pulmonary Surfactants; Rats; Rats, Inbred Strains