Porous hollow CuS nanospheres with prominent peroxidase-like activity prepared in large scale by a one-pot controllable hydrothermal step
Chun Mei Li,Peng Fei Gao,Ming Xuan Gao
RSC Advances Pub Date : 01/20/2015 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C4RA14609C
Abstract

CuS materials with peroxidase activity have been prepared but greatly limited by the large dosage and low peroxidase activity. In this paper, porous hollow CuS nanospheres with a variety of sizes were fabricated by one-pot method based on a facile template-assisted hydrothermal approach. The size of the porous hollow CuS nanospheres could be simply tuned by adjusting the molar ratios of reactants, the reaction temperature, and time. The as-prepared porous hollow CuS nanospheres were demonstrated to exhibit more prominent intrinsic peroxidase-like activity using TMB as a peroxidase substrate in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). This is a significant comparison to previous reports, demonstrating that the new developed synthetic porous hollow CuS nanospheres can be a new kind of candidate for peroxidase mimics, and the nanospheres are promising for applications in biosensors, environmental monitoring, and so on.

Graphical abstract: Porous hollow CuS nanospheres with prominent peroxidase-like activity prepared in large scale by a one-pot controllable hydrothermal step