Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 52-57 , February 2010

Simultaneous detection of dopamine, ascorbic acid, and uric acid at electrochemically pretreated carbon nanotube biosensors

  • Subbiah Alwarappan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Nanobioengineering/Bioelectronics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
    • ,
  • Guodong Liu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
    • ,
  • Chen-Zhong Li, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Nanobioengineering/Bioelectronics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Nanobioengineering/Bioelectronics Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.

Received 25 February 2009 ,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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 This current work is partially supported under grant FA9550-08-1-0287 of Department of Defense/Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2008 FIU Faculty Research Award, Kauffman Foundation, William Coulter Foundation, and NSF MRI 0821582 grant.

PII: S1549-9634(09)00110-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2009.06.003

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 52-57 , February 2010

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